At the years end, Africa Web TV can look back at a very uplifting year. We started the year not knowing where we were heading. As 2013 draws to a conclusion, we know exactly where we stand and know where we want to be in the years ahead. It has been a momentous year for…
The headless fowl kept twitching for what seemed to be at least ten minutes. As I was holding the brown chicken’s wings all kinds of thoughts ran though my head. How warm the animal I had just killed still was. How the blood did not gush as generously as I had expected. Also I noticed…
Admittedly, I was getting audacious. After watching Sola’s technique for almost two weeks, I thought I could pull it off. I had been studying his bargaining moves, how he cracked jokes in Yoruba at the right moment and pretended to be offended the next. So when he stepped out for a phone call in the…
Thanks to the ladies We hoped for 500 likes by the end of 2012 on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/webtvafrica), you made it 531 (2 more “likes” came by already in 2013!). We hoped for 15,000 views by the end of 2012 on our Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/webtvafrica) , you made it 17,017 to be exact (it…
1. Not to count my chickens before they are hatched. I learnt this the hard way when I was getting to an agent’s office two weeks ago to pay for a two bedroom apartment, only to find someone else had beaten me to it. I was this close to calling all my friends over for…
This has to be done. You may accuse me of blatant plagiarism (an interesting habit in this country, however unfounded) of a certain Nigerian writer’s how to’s, but I’ve always been of the conviction that it is better to steal a good idea than to come up with a bad one. In this case I…
