Saturday, July 18, 2009

Looking for inspiration?

A letter from my one of my classmates in Nigeria spur me to write this piece. He called me some two weeks ago telling me at long last he has started reading Baldeh Bolong, I could not help but thank my Mexican friend Jesus Hector Betancourt in Delhi for inspiring me to the art of blogging and since then things have progressed dramatically. While in Delhi, I had a friend in Pastor Facah too, even though at some point, I thought he was going to convince me to join his crusade but no, we never discuss religion.

I have always felt that when it comes to reading and writing, the Latin American writers are far ahead of us,although some will tell you that every typical African child have powerful story to tell because like the Latin Americans, we were colonised and as such everything about our language, dress, orientation and mode of speaking had changed dramatically. So this is one reason why present day writers of contemporary issues are hammering home the point, and the curious readers want to know more.

In Delhi, most of the things I learnt were outside the four walls of the class room, rather it was from friends and my quest to study the environment where I live. Sometimes deciphering the theoritical issues become so complex and cumbersome that I had to rush to friend for inspiration, perhaps this explains this question Besenty Gomez posed to me on facebook 'am I looking for inspiration' when I posed this photo byline.

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