Purpose of this blog

It’s the simple desire to type ‘Lenrie Peter’s – We have come home’ in Google, just as I did “Martin Luther King – I have a Dream’ and have at least two hyperlinks to the full version of the poem I fell in love with during my senior secondary days.

It’s the simple curiousity to find a read, fact-based and free of bias on why traces of palpable tribalism still linger in the hearts of my parents and their generation who fought and were fought against during the Nigerian Civil War.

It's the simple necessity to evolve from molten folk lores, Chinese whispers and paperback publications, to the diverse revolution of the Jet-Age.

Maybe it’s even a sudden wave and personal awakening to a true sense of patriotism (and perharps Pan-Africanism) at whose root lies genuine concern and a desire to preserve history in one simple way:

Documentation.



This work is dedicated to Professor (Mrs.) Aize Obayan, Miss Adebayo and Mr. Michael Odelola. Thank you for reproducing your passions for art in me.