The Dark Continent strikes again

Is there something wrong with us? Are we cursed, inferior, inept, confused or just easy to fool?

A few days ago I was ‘cursing’ Yardy and his dim-witted foot soldiers; today I grieve over a sad day in the history of our brothers and sisters in Kenya.

What have we done to God or our fellow men to deserve the likes of Kibaki, Yardy, Ibori and the many before them? When will I point to a couple of countries in Africa and say to my mates - there are African countries that are well run? Where are the several ‘men and women of God’, at times like this? They all claim to have ‘seen’ God in one form or another. Why are they not asking the question?

I tire.

Happy New Year everyone.

Removed

[Ridabu, Bhutto]

27.12.07

One (deplorably) permanently, the other (fortunately) from his post.

Both cases symbolize a very dismal day for Nigeria and Pakistan.

Merry Christmas

Have a nice one everyone, see y' all next year.
Ababoy 2007

Rocking back the years

The O2 Arena has been putting together some serious gigs lately. Who would have ever thought that the millennium dome, all £750 million of it, would be put to such good use? They will need to gig for a lot more years though to recover the costs.

Last night the ‘boys’ from Led Zep were in town. I am not a fan, can’t even tell you of any of their hits. But I must say it’s great to see folks like them back. The trick obviously must be working out a way of getting used to how they look now compared to 20 odd years ago. Once you get past that, all will be cool – hey – in most cases the music still stays the same.

Talking of greats of yesteryears, I recently got in touch with another great, Randy Muller. Rather than drop names, I intend to plug his new album – pls go and get it. Randy Muller - Multi-gold and Multi platinum producer/writer/artist - is in my opinion a legend. I will pay big bucks to see him on stage with Brass Construction or Skyy again.

Most of the 'funksters' of that era still play 'houses' in the states, but not the bigger stages. It's a shame that most of them dropped massive hits at a time when there was no crossover in music and with it the exposure needed to make them mega stars like their peers today.

Ricky “the con man” Hatton

Last night’s fight was a mismatch and always was from the minute it was conceived. Ricky Hatton, in my opinion, is nothing more than a high profile one dimensional fairly average boxer who successfully ‘mouthed’ his way to a big payday – Good luck to him. Ricky was never in Mayweather’s league and he knew it. But somehow he 419’ed his legion of British fans to believe he was.

Like many before him he talked the talk. He had Floyd beat while promoting the fight, during interviews and at the weigh-in ceremony. Pretty boy was scared, he said. Floyd will never know what hit him. Hatton came armed with 25,000 fans from England, forgetting that only 3 folks would be allowed in the ring once the fight started. Hatton got the British media hysterically on his side, as expected. To be fair, Hatton didn’t need to do anything; her majesty’s gutter press don’t need any prompting when it comes to reporting a win before the contest had actually taken place. Reading some of the papers over the past few days would have made one feel at home with similar reports during the early 20^th century when Jack Johnson was the heavyweight champion of the world, and the search was out for a man to restore the pride of the Caucasian race. Mr Hatton almost became that “Great White Hope.”

Hatton was one of them, and unlike many before him - Bruno, Eubank, Benn, Naz, Watson, Haye and Lewis – ‘they’ could relate to him. He was quite unlike the motor mouth from the other side of the pond. Floyd represented everything that some of these people detest. He was….

Last night Ricky was found wanting, he was simply exposed as a little bit better than an average boxer. He couldn’t walk the walk or walk the talk; he clinically got taken out by Pretty Boy. With the veil of imprudent patriotism removed, some folks were on the wires this morning asking for a refund of the $14.95 they spent ‘PPVing’ the fight. I wouldn’t go that far, Ricky successfully and maybe deservedly sweet-talked his way to a big pay day. It’s a shame that the nice boy from Manchester never let slip the fact he knew he never had a chance in hell.

As I watch BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, Ricky is being pampered as a hero. Lovely country, they appreciate their (winners) losers.

The return of Maradona

Surely this can not be true. Yardy is perhaps too slow, possibly out of his depth, evidently in poor health. He could be ‘slowly’ coming to terms with the fact that he got in there - in the first place - deceptively.

But the return of IBB, as our next President, purportedly orchestrated by the Balogun of Owu - General Aremu Obasanjo!

Surely not!!!

Many things about our country don’t shock me anymore, but if OBJ, Yardy & IBB pull this off….