Upon googling this curious term, I was informed that "Singer, Dr Sid, has revealed that the song currently making waves on the airwaves “Dorobucci” means a person or an individual that is awesome, amazing, rich, swagged-out, sexy and buff. According to the dentist turned songwriter and singer, any word that qualifies greatness, that's Dorobucci."
The song is quite the earworm and I had the pleasure of being introduced to it live by none other than the bejeweled staff carrying Don Jazzy. Check it out.
A friend shared this interesting piece and it reminded me of a recent BBC article about naming children in Africa. Not to forget the wonderful punning capabilities of the current Nigerian President's name, Goodluck Jonathan. :0)
"In the Uruba tribe of Africa, children are named not only at birth but throughout their lives by their characteristics and the events that befall them."
The one who took hold in the cold night The one who kicked loudly The one who slid down quickly in the ice storm She who came while the doctor was eating dessert New one held up by heels in the glare The river between two brothers Second pot on the stove Princess of a hundred dolls Hair like water falling beneath moonlight Strides into the day She who runs away with motorcycle club president Daughter kicked with a boot Daughter blizzard in the sky Daughter night-pocket She who sells sports club memberships One who loves over and over She who wants child but lost one. She who wants marriage but has none She who never gives up Diana (Goddess of the Chase) Doris (for the carrot-top grandmother she never knew) Fargnoli (for the father who drank and left and died) Peter Pan, Iron Pumper Tumbleweed who goes mouths without calling Daughter who is a pillar of light Daughter mirror, Daughter stands alone Daughter boomerang who always comes back Daughter who flies forward into the day where I will be nameless.
This acronym puzzled me for months (Echoas, Echoise, Eckowass, I tried them all). Today's a day to say "Aha!". From Wikipedia:
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen West African countries, founded on May 28, 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos. Its mission is to promote economic integration. In 1976 Cape Verde joined ECOWAS, and in December 2000 Mauritania withdrew, having announced its intention to do so in December 1999.
It was founded to achieve "collective self-sufficiency" for the member states by means of economic and monetary union creating a single large trading bloc. The very slow progress towards this aim meant that the treaty was revised in Cotonou on July 24, 1993, towards a looser collaboration. The ECOWAS Secretariat and the Fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development are its two main institutions to implement policies. The ECOWAS Fund was transformed into the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development in 2001. ECOWAS is one of the pillars of the African Economic Community (AEC). The current President of the Commission is James Victor Gbeho. The current chairman is acting President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria. It operates officially in three coequal languages (English, French, and Portuguese).
The first part of the talk reminded so much of my own childhood when I set out to write a book about the "Secret Nine", modeled of course on Enid Blyton's "Secret Seven" stories. There are so many other parallels I drew between her early life in Nigeria and mine in India. I found her concept of the misleading single story eye-opening and profound.
I am currently reading "The Thing Around Your Neck" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie is an award-winning Nigerian writer. The book consists of 12 short stories about both, life in Nigeria and the life of Nigerian immigrants in other countries (mostly America). Having moved to the US herself at the age of 19, Adichie's first-hand accounts of the situations faced by Nigerian immigrants is realistic and insightful. So far, I have found the book immensely interesting and would definitely recommend it.
Adichie's Unoffical Website had an interesting co-incidence listed on it under her biography: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, the fifth of six children to Igbo parents, Grace Ifeoma and James Nwoye Adichie. While the family's ancestral hometown is Abba in Anambra State, Chimamanda grew up in Nsukka, in the house formerly occupied by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.
