Egusi Soup

it’s been ages since i was here. i’ve been busy that’s the only explanation i’m willing to give. a lot has happened since i’ve been away. i’ve been asked several times ‘hey you haven’t written on your blog in a while’. so i break the silence. a lot has changed but some things still remain the same. i still don’t have curtains in my bedroom. i now have furniture, you can actually sit in my living room on real chairs. i still use the rug though.

my dstv has been quite useful. i’ve been watching east& south african idols. yeah the program where people go to sing and take singing in shower to a new level. its not beef but i think some mothers have sent their kids on the road to perdition by actually telling them they could sing. i know i cant sing but some of those who sing in the audition make me wonder if i shouldn’t apply for the next west african idol edition. on second thoughts it wont 'werk'.

in previous editions i know i have been all praises about my new home. well i still got praises but then there’s a paradox of two carpenters. (Christ was a carpenter too...hmm) i had one do me a stand for my tv and the other the chairs for my sitting room. the second guy delivered in one week. the first guy took a month and half to bring the stand to my place. i think sometimes the ghanaians are too laid back that they could be slow. mind you i’m not complaining.

this morning on the news there were loud complaints about the power outage. there was even a discussion on the issues of power distribution. one thing about this country, they will talk about any and everything i guess that’s why they are less volatile , ‘jaw-jaw no war-war’ except of course you live in the north. well on the power thing, last weekend and yesterday light went off for some time. so this morning people were sending in text messages complaining how they couldn’t do anything because they didn’t have a generator ( why?).

i and a fellow naija, felt they should take a holiday in the home country and come back and they’d be humbled. i mean if light is taken with the certainty that it will come back the same day what do they have to complain about? its different when light is taken here, you don’t feel that sense of panic. thoughts like ‘when will it come back? today? tomorrow? next month?’ don’t run through your head. you are certain it will come back.

ghanian politicians are particular about their diction as i have come to discover. a radio presenter was put in a rather tricky situation based on his reporting of facts. he claimed a certain guy had ‘demanded’ that a party rethink their presidential candidate because he felt the guy needed to be investigated for corruption. he calls up the man to ask him what further he had to say on the matter. the man told him he had to apologies to listeners for misrepresentation first before the interview continued. he said he had ‘advised’ the party in question and not demanded. he wasn’t a member of the party or the executive so he had no power to ‘demand’.

still on radio programs. another reporter called up an editor who was reported to have been sacked to ask if this really was the case. the man tells him to look at the name on that day’s edition of the paper he was editor of. the reported agreed that it was his name that was there but still wanted to know if he had been sacked. the man now asked him if a man and his wife have children would he still ask the man if he makes love to his wife? i guess the man knows little about the faith and knowledge analogy in marriage. a man knows his children by faith, a woman has 'knowledge' of her children. all in all, the do have interesting radio programs here. their news is interesting , they argue and complain about things we would find funny in my home country. they don’t have water for a few days and they complain that most of the management staff in the water distribution company are not ghanaians so they wont have the interest of the people at heart. water is a paid for service here. in home country , i got a bill from the water board , i never saw the water. here a few days and they complain? the need to visit home country

ok i think i need to explain why i seem to be always blasting the home country. contrary to what the readers may think, i used to be very patriotic , i still am. but patriotism is reciprocal. only God loves unconditionally. if i don’t get any love from my country, i cant have any to give back. e go better, God dey , na poor man prayer. this one is getting too long, i’ll save gist for another day.

i now have egusi soup at home, don't ask me how.