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simply joan
again i will like to explore your mind to discover how you think and reason. there's a great wealth lying in your mind, you come up with things which are simply mind blowing (but please don't get your own mind blown in pieces, we still need it). isn't that what geniuses are made of
again i will like to explore your mind to discover how you think and reason. there's a great wealth lying in your mind, you come up with things which are simply mind blowing (but please don't get your own mind blown in pieces, we still need it). isn't that what geniuses are made of
143 days ago
simply joan
your view about the benin "kingdom" was lacerating to my soul. at a point i felt anger @ your lack of restraint in portraying what benin is like then i discovered i wasn't angry at you but i was only feeling the same anger i feel each time i visit my hometown. i get disappointed each time. knowing the rich heritage that town is hiding in it's belly, you wonder if the potruding kwashoikor like belly you see when you are in benin is where that heritage is hiding. benin has become a historical shame and something needs to be done, so that when you visit next time, you can gaily join in in the mad dance of sir victor uwaifo. you indeed are (why do they use "are" instead of "is") one in a million. as you said of sir victor: you are one example of a few Nigerian aberrations and they don't make people like you anymore. thumbs up!!!!
your view about the benin "kingdom" was lacerating to my soul. at a point i felt anger @ your lack of restraint in portraying what benin is like then i discovered i wasn't angry at you but i was only feeling the same anger i feel each time i visit my hometown. i get disappointed each time. knowing the rich heritage that town is hiding in it's belly, you wonder if the potruding kwashoikor like belly you see when you are in benin is where that heritage is hiding. benin has become a historical shame and something needs to be done, so that when you visit next time, you can gaily join in in the mad dance of sir victor uwaifo. you indeed are (why do they use "are" instead of "is") one in a million. as you said of sir victor: you are one example of a few Nigerian aberrations and they don't make people like you anymore. thumbs up!!!!
143 days ago
Explorer
By the time the episode is aired then we will know what Joromi really means
By the time the episode is aired then we will know what Joromi really means
149 days ago
Nicholas omoruyi
I am not too sure what to say about the story of Joromi. It's not quit clear as to why Joromi ended up with so many heads, the entire pages of how the story came about is not quit clear. Was Joromi a human being?. Funmi, don't you think you should be spending your time reporting more on the issues affecting Nigeria ie poverty, torture, force imprisonment, curruption you name it, instead of spending too much of your time reporting on the same old criminals. I admire victor owaifo as a musician but not as politician. Your effort is grately appreciated, i think we need to see more of you.
I am not too sure what to say about the story of Joromi. It's not quit clear as to why Joromi ended up with so many heads, the entire pages of how the story came about is not quit clear. Was Joromi a human being?. Funmi, don't you think you should be spending your time reporting more on the issues affecting Nigeria ie poverty, torture, force imprisonment, curruption you name it, instead of spending too much of your time reporting on the same old criminals. I admire victor owaifo as a musician but not as politician. Your effort is grately appreciated, i think we need to see more of you.
150 days ago
Explorer
The man go show us mammy water come sunday...Hope say Funmi saw the mammy water
The man go show us mammy water come sunday...Hope say Funmi saw the mammy water
151 days ago
ADENEKAN, OLUSEGUN A.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
152 days ago
ADENEKAN, OLUSEGUN A.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
152 days ago
ADENEKAN, OLUSEGUN A.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
I admire you a lot because you are very intelligent and your show makes me feel lifted.
152 days ago
Funmi meets the high priest of the mysterious Holy Arousa Church and spends a weird and wonderful day with professor, sculptor, and musical legend Victor Uwaifo.
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TWF Diaries: Legends and Myths
I often have to sneak in and out of the country to stroke my sanity. This is good. What is not so good is that I left my TWF diary at home. Yes there is an actual retro long hand written journal so I will have to do this week's diaries from memory.
Don't quote me but I seem to remember that we shot the first part with the priest of the feared holy Aruosa church on May 26th and the next part with legendary Victor Uwaifo next day.
The crew had driven 2 days ahead of us from Lagos whilst we flew into a very grey and depressing Benin late evening May 25th.
We had been informed that we would require additional security in Benin so the police commissioner had been very helpful supplying four fully armed police men in contrast to the plain cloth policemen we used in Lagos and the relaxed policemen in Ondo. The Benin security was tough, tight and very professional. They were also very humane and friendly, we were sad to part with them after the shoot but then I am jumping the figurative gun aren't I? The one point I must make tough is that the road trip showed me the potential of the Nigerian police if like everything else there was no issue of political corruption, poor funding, inadequate training, appalling salaries and work conditions.
Okay Funmi, stop digressing. We stayed at one of the best hotels in town but it was a shit hole, okay maybe I am biased because it was symbolic of the way in which past administrators had raped this once beautiful state. The entire city was rather jumpy and uptight; a point I made to the information commissioner, my old friend Abdul Oroh when we sat down to a delicious pounded yam dinner at his home. The governor Adams Oshiomhole was out of town so we could not talk with him.
On the morning of the 26th, Bayo and I debated what would be appropriate to wear to visit the Oba and to go to the Holy Aruosa church. Abdul had said that the Oba was cosmopolitan and I could appear there in trousers if I wanted to. I did not agree, so I wore iro and buba with gele. I can tell you about the encounter with the Oba of Benin but that's another day's diary. We filmed the Holy Aruosa church after I survived my encounter with the Oba. Benin was getting on my nerves at this stage and my head was aching from the heat and the tight gele, which I took off and Bayo replaced with a wig.
After all the mystery and hushed tones I had experienced during the research about the holy Aruosa church, I had expected a much more impressive building but the church was pretty nondescript. To enter we were told to pay a "token" so we could not speak with the priest. My impression of the priest is better kept to myself and I failed to see the mystery and mythic. His stories about the origin of Benin would have been really special in a better-appointed edifice and if we didn't have to "drop something". The final straw was when I asked to use the toilet and was pointed outdoors to a corrugated iron sheet "shit in my face" contraption. Haba, you mean all the dignitaries who attend this church come here to stoop and pee on past pees?
The rest of the day was spent filming future episodes and searching for a decent meal in town.
Next day May 27th we filmed Sir Victor Uwaifo. Chris had come back from his technical Reece of the location the day before a little lost for words to explain what the professor's place is like. When we arrived to shot I understood. The place is a cross between a dungeon, a morgue and a museum complete with eerie sound effects and low lighting. In fact the only way we could shoot some of the rooms was with the EOS camera and it is impossible to recreate the mood and ambience of that place. It is something to be experienced. Sir Victor himself is an energetic, enigmatic mad professor. A restless man of bondless energy and limitless creative expression. His home/museum is a monument to his talent, gifts, career and ego.
I wonder what he must be like in class when he lectures. A legendary musician, TV personality, prolific sculptor, artist, body builder, public administrator and university lecturer, he, his work and his home overwhelm.
We spent an entire day filming and he neither stopped for drink or food nor paused for breath, picking me up unexpectedly at one point like I was feather weight, don't go there!
We thoroughly enjoyed the time with him and I marveled that they don't make them like this anymore but also that sir Victor is one example of a few Nigerian aberrations, a mad unstoppable genius expressing him in spite or perhaps because of our often-chaotic existence.
I often have to sneak in and out of the country to stroke my sanity. This is good. What is not so good is that I left my TWF diary at home. Yes there is an actual retro long hand written journal so I will have to do this week's diaries from memory.
Don't quote me but I seem to remember that we shot the first part with the priest of the feared holy Aruosa church on May 26th and the next part with legendary Victor Uwaifo next day.
The crew had driven 2 days ahead of us from Lagos whilst we flew into a very grey and depressing Benin late evening May 25th.
We had been informed that we would require additional security in Benin so the police commissioner had been very helpful supplying four fully armed police men in contrast to the plain cloth policemen we used in Lagos and the relaxed policemen in Ondo. The Benin security was tough, tight and very professional. They were also very humane and friendly, we were sad to part with them after the shoot but then I am jumping the figurative gun aren't I? The one point I must make tough is that the road trip showed me the potential of the Nigerian police if like everything else there was no issue of political corruption, poor funding, inadequate training, appalling salaries and work conditions.
Okay Funmi, stop digressing. We stayed at one of the best hotels in town but it was a shit hole, okay maybe I am biased because it was symbolic of the way in which past administrators had raped this once beautiful state. The entire city was rather jumpy and uptight; a point I made to the information commissioner, my old friend Abdul Oroh when we sat down to a delicious pounded yam dinner at his home. The governor Adams Oshiomhole was out of town so we could not talk with him.
On the morning of the 26th, Bayo and I debated what would be appropriate to wear to visit the Oba and to go to the Holy Aruosa church. Abdul had said that the Oba was cosmopolitan and I could appear there in trousers if I wanted to. I did not agree, so I wore iro and buba with gele. I can tell you about the encounter with the Oba of Benin but that's another day's diary. We filmed the Holy Aruosa church after I survived my encounter with the Oba. Benin was getting on my nerves at this stage and my head was aching from the heat and the tight gele, which I took off and Bayo replaced with a wig.
After all the mystery and hushed tones I had experienced during the research about the holy Aruosa church, I had expected a much more impressive building but the church was pretty nondescript. To enter we were told to pay a "token" so we could not speak with the priest. My impression of the priest is better kept to myself and I failed to see the mystery and mythic. His stories about the origin of Benin would have been really special in a better-appointed edifice and if we didn't have to "drop something". The final straw was when I asked to use the toilet and was pointed outdoors to a corrugated iron sheet "shit in my face" contraption. Haba, you mean all the dignitaries who attend this church come here to stoop and pee on past pees?
The rest of the day was spent filming future episodes and searching for a decent meal in town.
Next day May 27th we filmed Sir Victor Uwaifo. Chris had come back from his technical Reece of the location the day before a little lost for words to explain what the professor's place is like. When we arrived to shot I understood. The place is a cross between a dungeon, a morgue and a museum complete with eerie sound effects and low lighting. In fact the only way we could shoot some of the rooms was with the EOS camera and it is impossible to recreate the mood and ambience of that place. It is something to be experienced. Sir Victor himself is an energetic, enigmatic mad professor. A restless man of bondless energy and limitless creative expression. His home/museum is a monument to his talent, gifts, career and ego.
I wonder what he must be like in class when he lectures. A legendary musician, TV personality, prolific sculptor, artist, body builder, public administrator and university lecturer, he, his work and his home overwhelm.
We spent an entire day filming and he neither stopped for drink or food nor paused for breath, picking me up unexpectedly at one point like I was feather weight, don't go there!
We thoroughly enjoyed the time with him and I marveled that they don't make them like this anymore but also that sir Victor is one example of a few Nigerian aberrations, a mad unstoppable genius expressing him in spite or perhaps because of our often-chaotic existence.
your view about the benin "kingdom" was lacerating to my soul. at a point i felt anger @ your lack of restraint in portraying what benin is like then i discovered i wasn't angry at you but i was only feeling the same anger i feel each time i visit my hometown. i get disappointed each time. knowing the rich heritage that town is hiding in it's belly, you wonder if the potruding kwashoikor like belly you see when you are in benin is where that heritage is hiding. benin has become a historical shame and something needs to be done, so that when you visit next time, you can gaily join in in the mad dance of sir victor uwaifo. you indeed are (why do they use "are" instead of "is") one in a million. as you said of sir victor: you are one example of a few Nigerian aberrations and they don't make people like you anymore. thumbs up!!!!