Thoughts

Have you ever woken up and just felt weird?...Today was that day for me, there was just something in the air that i could not put a finger on....everything just felt out of sync for me, can't tell why...hmmmm.....i know i have so many projects to accomplish and i have not even embarked on the first project...maybe that is why i feel weird?..don't know....... sometimes i feel like the biggest procrastinator on earth and it just irritates me, to see that i continue this pattern of behavior even after i had promised a million times that i would do better in that area....hmph!...anyhoos...i was thinking about naija today and was wondering what people in the diaspora (especially the U.S because that is where i live) can do to effect change and i'm talking from the grass root level. I have this burden for the little children in Nigeria who have like zero opportunities...what about them?...let me digress a little.....there is just something irritating when you meet a Nigerian abroad and they act like they don't know anything about naija, and they grew up there?...how do you grow up in a place and you claim not to know anything about the culture of the people?...c'mon...nah that ain't even right...I met this guy at a meeting his name was one of the most popular Yoruba names out there....i was so excited because i was the only other black person, so we started talking and i asked him what part of naija he was from....and this dudu boy gave me a blank stare, so i politely repeated myself thinking he may not have heard me but he told me he can't remember.....is this guy for real? i was so dissapointed that i focused on my oyinbo friends through out the night....after the meeting he came up to me and said he was from Lagos, confused i asked why he was telling me now....he said he didn't want the white people to start asking him stupid questions.....lame excuse if you ask me.....this brings me back to my heart for my people...the colonial mentality that many of us operate under is erroding our senses. So this is why i am interested in little children in nigeria to be able to reach and teach them what it is to be Nigerian and proud, also help in creating opportunities for them. I can't wait to go back home!...hurray for Nigeria (excluding the corrupt leaders ofcourse)

Free verse...THINK

Government, policies, institutions
put together to brain wash the average man
for now to seek life means to seek weallth by all means
necessary....
Lame man still lame
Blind man still Blind
searching for truth in institutions
that were never made to reveal the truth
the trap has already been set for him who seeks
wisdom, if you doubt me ask the little boy
who wanted to know who killed his father

Religion, culture, emotions
used against everyone who does not
search but follows the status quo
lame man leading blind man
blind man leading lame man
lost but yet they pretend to know
for you to know you must search
for you to see you must discern

They made you fall inlove with wealth
now all that matters is that paper
lame man perishing
Blind man Perishing
Yet they lie that they live
Beautiful ugly world...what have you created?

open up your eyes, then maybe
you will see....?
life is really not what you see
for life is in the blood and blood
is the very life you live
maybe yellow isn't yellow?
grass is not really green?
man is fallen so what do you think?

Injustice, hunger, pain, sorrow,jealousy
hatred, wars, fear, manipulation. winners,losers
anger, malice, diseases........who created all these
.....is it you?

Nneka Egbuna

Nneka.....is simply...hmmm....whats the word again? words fail me when it comes to describing this bold but shy singer, songwriter, guitarist e.t.c, i have been following her music and the truths she spews through her lyrics which is usually intertwined with soulful melodies is just captivating. There is just something about truth and authenticity that can cut across barriers of culture and other things, that is what her Music has done!....whether you are American, Nigerian(like me), British, German or whatever, you can connect with the deep human desire for truth, justice and love to reign...obviously there are a few who would hate truth to reign because they are the culprits of the lies we all live in....but i digress...I hope people support her as her album drops in the U.S which is titled concrete jungle because i will definitely cop that album .... I don't know but there is something her music does for me, it tugs at my heart to be the change instead of complaining because truth be told we are all parts of the problem existing in our world today!...As a Nigerian her music pushes me to want to help Nigeria make a change, go back home and look for areas i can affect for the better....Nneka thanks for being real and showing us what the real face of music is in our generation, instead of all these crap being promoted...bling bling, booty shaking nonsense...