Glass ceilings broken and ROADS WIDE OPEN #2022

12 #AfricanCountries You Didn’t Realize You Had To Go To https://t.co/FD8cnWB1NB #travelmore pic.twitter.com/leaEEIsgvc

— UTB 2004 Ltd (@UTB2004Ltd) July 1, 2016

Africa Is A Dream Destination For Nature Lovers — Here Are 14 Countries That Are Especially Worth Exploring 💖 https://t.co/sihFBQWsxU pic.twitter.com/yE6GH7DQ9k

— SeasonedBF (@seasonedbf) August 26, 2021

Nigeria is famous for its warming, flavourful cuisine – and for good reason! If you haven’t tried them already, here’s 23 Nigerian foods to try asap: https://t.co/LpM2pEcxht #nigeria #nigeriancuisine #africa #food #musttry #culture #jollofrice #akara #suya #pottage

— Project Girl Foundation (@ProjectGF1) January 16, 2019

And here are the links again, because the months-long twitter ban has not yet been lifted in Nigeria:

• 12 African Countries You Didn’t Realize You Wanted To Go To
• Africa Is A Dream Destination For Nature Lovers — Here Are 14 Countries That Are Especially Worth Exploring
• 23 Nigerian Foods The Whole World Should Know And Love

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Technology Today

Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing  . Artificially-intelligent robots  . Self-driving cars  . Neuro-technological brain enhancements  . Genetic editing  .  .  . 21st-century stuff . . .

in the light of which the constant drama of Nigerian (African?) society, the stuff of our daily news for instance, must appear supremely daft and irrelevant.  Yaba would save us, but that dream too may be dying. 

If you have a ray of hope to share, put it in the comments.

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Two billionaires at tea

Oprah interviews JK Rowling
Edinburgh, Scotland,
October 2010.

Watch the 40min video.  Hmmm, so they're just like us?

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Where do you want to go today?

Taking time in. A few old university friends and I touched base recently and told me, "You're doing what you said you wanted to do." Now, I don't recall having much clarity on life during my university days but I was pretty steadfast in wanting to travel. Had no plan/idea on how to but I kept that goal in mind. 5 years ago, I said I'll never work a regular 9-5 again and would clock in 20 hour weekends just to beat that and have free days during the week lol. About 3 years ago, I told myself that I needed to travel to a new country at least once year, which I did and now I've found myself in 5 countries since January. Then I told myself I needed to live long-term in at least two different countries before I'm 30 (one down). It does take action to move with life, but no, it doesn't have to be meticulously planned out all the time so don't worry, you're the only one who doesn't have everything mapped out. The urge to be on the move is so ingrained that it's almost second nature to navigate and find opportunities towards just that. Does that make sense? There's no plan B to not finding accomplishments for the goals I set myself. #noforreal #ilegitdonthaveaplan #abudhabi #uae #travelnoire

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Can My__ Make It? Part Two. But it's once again called myspace.

Make a top 10 comeback? Probably not.  But its decline has slowed in the last two years. 

Source: UpNaira July 2011 - can my__ make it?

From around #12 most popular site in the world in 2009 down down down...

Now outside the top 200, still losing ground but more slowly now.

The "new myspace" announced around September 2012, then launched in January, seems to have helped.   Here are some reviews: 
Techcrunch: Myspace squandered the only thing it had left - it deleted the f*ing fans.  Ouch. 
TopTenReviews: Myspace has been at the top of the heap of social network sites, and then on the bottom.  It is now capitalizing on its music-lover niche.

 My review

Good: I like the music and playlists and finding little-known artistes.  I like a comeback.
Bad: The login process is confusing.  Even owner-investor Justin Timberlake's latest videos are not on his profile. 

Enterprise on the dumpsite

You have to watch Welcome to Lagos, a BBC documentary featuring several Lagosians (notably a dude named Vocal Slender) , the massive smell-site called Olusosun, and some amazing lessons on wealth.
Here:
Continued in Parts 1.2,  1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6