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Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Tell Your Black Girl Daily

Monday, 24 May 2021
Summary Of My Thoughts about Nigeria and Africa In Quotes

Tuesday, 4 May 2021
Remember I Told You, Black is beautiful
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Photo by Trevory Kelly on Pixabay |
Never cracks
You owe nobody
Walk tall
Own every moment
Original Publication: May 22, 2020

Thursday, 15 April 2021
Taking Care Of Your Mental Health While Relocating As A Highly Skilled Professional
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Picture credit: Tom Leishman from Pexels |
Let's Use The Story Of Jane To Paint This Picture Properly
Highly Skilled Professionals Migrate For A Range Of Reasons
What Can Trigger Mental Health Problems?
You Might Have To Do Survival Jobs In Your Destination Country
You Might Have To Start All Over Or Start At A Lower Job Level
You Might Need Extra Help For Your Young Children
You Might Get Lonely

Friday, 12 February 2021
We've been fleeing home for a long time - Ode To My Fellow Nigerians.
Our government does not listen. Our politicians have cleptomaniac gluttony.
They spray bricks of dollars at the innumerable birthday parties they conjure.
Dollars from our oil funds and treasury, meant to build us roads and hospitals.
Our roads are craters, roller coasters, turbulent high seas.
Hospitals are sharks swallowing patients without chewing.
Schools? Oh!Brink Back Our Girls!
We started fleeing home a person at a time.
We’ve been fleeing home for a long time.
Our government does not listen. Our politicians have cleptomaniac gluttony.
Our people are spread over oceans. Stuck between devils and deep blue seas.
1987, aunt Kree ran from home to Europe, searching for greener pastures.
1995, five of my doctor cousins left for Kuwait, anything but home.
2010, ten of my friends left for the States, swearing never to come back.
We started fleeing home a person at a time.
We’ve been fleeing home for a long time.
Our government does not listen. Our politicians have cleptomaniac gluttony.
They loot our treasury. Eat up our reserves. Infringe our rights. Insult our intelligence.
Open fire on our freedom fighters. Brain drain our country. Embarrass the hell out of us.
Oh-mine-they-embarrass-the-hell-out-of-us.
Home is a carcass. A shadow of a story that was. A glory of past ages.
Home is a rut. Home is a trap. We too must run. The gates are closing.
We started fleeing home a person at a time.
We’ve been fleeing home for a long time.
Jumoke Eniola Odepe
ON 2021

Monday, 30 November 2020
The profound tragedy of our stolen identity | Olasupo Shasore | TEDxLagos

Tuesday, 24 November 2020
I love South African and Nigerian accents
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You hardly hear this right? Yes me too.
That's the world we created. A world where everyone says they love the same things to be politically correct but to the disadvantage of some others.
We forget the beauty of diversity.
I admired how Winston Duke successfully imitated the Nigerian accent in the Black Panther movie. He brilliantly acted M'Baku bringing back fond memories of how Nigerians end each sentence with "ooo."
Oh, I love it!
How about how Chadwick imitated the South African accent bringing back fond memories of Madiba, the South-African Nelson Mandela. How I loved the way he said "I thank you" after each of his speeches.
But I stand in wonderment each time at the political correctness of gushing over the British accent even from the lips of my 5-year-old niece who is yet to meet a soul with the British accent. She must have heard us older humans say it.
The rhetoric has been well established that the British accent is the nice, queenly, sophisticated accent that we all must marvel at while in reality, our preferences over accents are as diverse as we humans are.
Who told you that some accents are less than others? How did you first learn these beliefs?
From the deepest accents in these African countries to the mild ones and then to the ones you can only hear the accents in minuscules. I love them.
Perspective.
Jumoke Eniola Odepe
Canada

Saturday, 17 October 2020
#Endsars #End all forms of oppression in Nigeria
This is the dawn of a new era in Nigeria 🇳🇬. I’m proud of the Gen Z soro soke generation.
#End Sars
#End all forms of oppression of the people of Nigeria
#End bad governance
#Promote technology
#Promote security and sanctity of the human life
#Welcome new era
Ola,
Toronto, ON

Thursday, 18 June 2020
Natural Hair - Poetic image

Babe, I see you
Babe, I saw you this morn' when
Lots of deep conditioning did not
Alter the tenacity of your hair and you
Carelessly, in desperate surrender
Knot it, into a Cantu weave
I see you, I love you, I am you.

Monday, 8 June 2020
A day bridal shopping in Lagos - Lu
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Image by Carolina-Marinelli-Unsplash |
My name is Lukeman, it's a boy's name so just call me Lu. My parent had wanted a boy so badly and had a name so when I came out as a girl, I got the predestined boy's name anyway.
Refueled, we drove down to Cornucopia to shop for my engagement beads, Tan and I chatting like Parakeets. We were about to turn into Isaac John street when Tan gave me the look, I have always known the look which questions everything I stand for. That look, the look that says, "Hey there is something you are hiding from me!", that look! it bothers me. Before I could ignore and escape, Tan blurted
"Don't you think it's time you came back home?"
I was totally unprepared. I melted in my seat. I traveled over 6,000 miles to recuperate from the effects of my dismissal from work where I was walked out of the premises by my haggard and brutal nin-com-poop British boss!
Instead, I found myself spilling the truth like a child bribed with candy.

The End To the African Time Menace
Reasoning together we
Intentionally, purposefully and strategically
Immediate effect, after that
Meeting that we had in May, we put an
End to the time-wasting, life zapping, poverty manufacturing, backward driving menace called the "African Time."

Thursday, 4 June 2020
The Things You Know About People Of African descent
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Photo by Jackson David from Pixbay |

Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Project Africa

Friday, 1 November 2019
3 things African leaders must do to have an Africa that works - Part 4 (Final part)

Thursday, 24 October 2019
Part 3. Engage - To Have An Africa That works, All Africans Must Engage
WHY ENGAGE:
- Because we owe it to ourselves and to our children. You can tell the kids in the future, "I did my part" or "join me in doing my part"
- Because some Africans are perishing in Africa, they have no wherewithal to leave Africa for "greener pastures"
- Because in the words of my friend Baba Alalade, a king might come someday, in the "greener pastures", that will not know Joseph again, where will the Israelites then go? (Exodus 1:8) Selah
- Because we are rich in melanin, we don't blend in, we stand out. For us, home is partly where you live, but mostly, where you come from (Africa.)
HOW TO ENGAGE
WAYS TO ENGAGE
- Don't give excuses
- Join or volunteer in an organization that is already engaged in your African passion
- Use your social media (Facebook, Instagram, Blog, Vlog etc.) to convey the solution (not the problem)
- If passionate about poverty eradication in Africa - sponsor an African child, an African family or an African village. See the World vision model at https://www.worldvision.org. You can also join an organization such as this.
- Movies go a long way in nation building. Especially for a continent that loves movies like Africa. If you are passionate about poor Nollywood productions - join/volunteer in Nollywood, write your own scripts, direct and produce your own movies. that reflects the Africa you dream of (you can start your movie productions on you tube)
- Use the technology you know or the means you have to get your African solution message out there.

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
10 highlights of an Africa that works - Part 2, the African dream series
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Courtesy:corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/smart-goal/ |
5. that is safe to live in, safe to invest in and safe for tourism
Guelph, 2019

Monday, 7 October 2019
The African Dream .........Part 1 (Finally found the African dream)
Two years ago, I started a journey, entirely on a frolic of my own, to find the African dream. My desire to know the African dream stemmed from the fact that "....where there is no vision, the people perish" .... little wonder. I also started this journey because I noted that thousands of brilliant Africans were and are still fleeing the continent as there is no clear blueprint for the future. More like a car going nowhere situation, more like an accident about to happen situation.
Within the past two years, I conversed with diverse Africans, from airport workers while I'm on a trip, to the crannies of my kitchen while hosting friends. Our conversation, often mild to medium passionate, almost always bother on Africa, her problems and solutions. We always conclude, sometimes after heated arguments, that, for Africa to work, we need new visionary leadership. After each conversation, when the information is not voluntarily offered, I ask "As an African, if Africa is fixed, will you go back home to Africa?", I always get the same answer "in a blink".
Three weeks ago, while deep thinking about Africa and my conversations, it dawned on me that I found what I was looking for! The African dream is to have an Africa that works.
Penned by Jumi Odepe

Tuesday, 26 December 2017
Snowman or Sand Castles in Harmattan?
made 5 years ago in Nigeria, Africa and thought to myself:
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Let us say this slavery story properly
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