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So, my last post here was to basically say that I was moving my blogging to my newly-launched bornAfrican.com blog. I have since blogged on that site, and am pretty darn proud of the strides we made in terms of number and quality of posts, as well as number of new bloggers. But, to be honest, I have learned a couple of things since I last expressed that resolution to move my blogging from here to there:

1. While the blog at bornAfrican.com is quite suited to serious editorials, I do not feel inclined to post entries of a personal nature on my bornAfrican.com blog. As bornAfrican.com is billed as a “convergence of Africana,” it wouldn’t appear to make much sense to rant about the aggravations of metropolitan life, for example. Neither would it be appropriate to wax lyrical about a love interest. The blogs at bornAfrican.com are serious business: in my case, impassioned harangues of the Nigerian status quo. I intend to continue to do this, with a view to paying more attention to the economics as much as to the politics within the Nigerian space particularly, and Africa, in general.
2. Running an initiative might not be as easy as it might initially seem. As you might have seen from that posting in which I declared the move to the bornAfrican.com blogs, bornAfrican.com promised numerous initiatives… from Music to Classifieds to an online Store, etc. For a number of reasons, only the blogs has made sufficient traction… the music component, through live, has not lived up to its billing. The goal is to continue to look for ways to get these offerings into production, and to bring the bornAfrican.com initiative, as a whole, to its potential.
3. Keep at it. That’s a lesson that’s not been lost on me in the whole process… The implicit message being that context and constraints change all the time… the challenge is figuring out when and how to modify the modus operandi in such a way as to ensure continuity…

In summary, I have resolved to return here to post more personal stuff; my blog at bornAfrican.com is clearly not an appropriate outlet for such entries. I will continue to post the more serious stuff—the ones that have implications for matters larger than you or me (at least from my perspective) to the bornAfrican.com blog, but the daily (relatively trivial) stuff go here.

Sidebar: 

One phenomenon that has (and continues to) at once awe, inspire, and amaze me? Facebook.

We’ll talk more about this and more, I’m sure, pretty soon.

Ciao.

postscript: let me use the opportunity to thank bayo, idiare, ejike, ade, tolu, seni, and “edward” for being bloggers at bornAfrican.com. Do you want to join the bornAfrican.com cadre of bloggers? Please accept my personal invitation.

So, bornAfrican.com has finally gotten off the ground!

bornAfrican (http://www.bornafrican.com) is an online community for Africans, and is billed “the convergence of Africana.”

I encourage you to join and be a part of the bornAfrican community… share your African (and human) experience, converse with old friends and meet new ones … rant, rave, pontificate … take advantage of current and coming offerings … spread the word by telling your friends about bornAfrican … help to make small (or earth-shattering, if you like) improvements to bornAfrican, over time…

So, I will now blog at http://www.bornafrican.com/blog/author/coyibo/. (Or, just visit bornafrican.com, and click on the Blogs navigation tab).

Catch you on the rebound—at bornAfrican.

C. E. Oyibo, Over and Out.
bornAfrican.com

To be honest, this blog is long overdue. Long before blogging became the in-thing, one of my most enjoyable pasttimes was making entries to what I will consider my journal. Now, understand, I did not own a brown, leather-bound book that I called a journal… My journal was, in fact, any blank sheet of paper or Microsoft Word document on which I expressed my thoughts, unfettered.

At some point in the late 1990s/early 2000s, again, before blogging became the fashion of the day, I compiled some of my more creative writing into a Web site, written in plain HTML, with none of the intricate complexities that underlie WordPress or Blogger. My site at that point was simply a collection of .htm files, sorted into such interesting categories as Rants, Journals, Philosophies,  Poetry, and Tales from Comlag. I might yet, to use the systems integration term, migrate those pieces from there to here.

Anyway, my hope is for this blog to be a sustained project… That I am never quite so bogged-down by the demands of Metropolitan life that I renege on my commitment to keep the blog alive…

To be honest with you, I am doing this for me as much as for you. For me, it will be a way to recount my daily and weekly experiences (which, you must understand, has a certain therapeutic effect)… For you, it could be a way to pass a few boring Saturday afternoons, right before the big night on the town, or it might serve as a brief reprieve from a hectic day at work.

 So, you see, it’s a win-win proposition. Return here often, will you?