investing?
Dork that i am, i've been spending the last couple of evenings(over the last couple of weeks, fucking sigh) in the library...i am determined to get my first more than anything else; afterall the hard earned pounds my folks are churning out should not go to waste. sigh
If i am to be honest, its not really about the pounds. I am worried. I keep thinking back to an argument propsed by my dad's friend, a man we called uncle tunde. He refused to send his kids abroad to study since he believed that "they would loose time and possible contacts".
Now here i am at university, yes i'm having a nice time but apprantly nowhere near what my friends who have stayed back in Nigeria...or so i think!!!
I've reading and seeing these people in the news, already headliners and decision makers and what am i doing, investing for the fucking future????
What am i doin?
posted by internationalhome @ 1:16 pm
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umm..I don't know what kind of friends you have (or how old you are!) but very very few people under 25 can make "headway" in Nigeria unless their parents are loaded...hence they are loaded...or they travelled for school, came back and started doing stuff, and they're loaded. Tell the truth, your friends weren't born poor (or even middle-class) and worked their way up MTN or Ernst & Young with a degree from Unilag and are now rich and influential (with no help from their parents social/business circle) all before the age of 25. Tell the truth mtb!!!
Unless of course...you're referring to career social activists...in that case it is entirely possible.
My mother wise woman that she is always drummed into our heads- it's not how fast, but how well. It's come true in every single aspect of my life...time is fleeting. What feels like years now will ultimately be worth it, always take the long view...hang in there
thanks all for your kind comments, i suppose you are all right in your own way!
@ everchange: my friends are just basic people...ie members of the ever dissapearing middle class in Nigeria who are making it with the help of mentors...hmm thats something to blog about!
@ teachingpsyche: you are right about the headliner thing although not all headliners who start early burn out.I cant exactly remember how i came across your blog but i dont remember erikas blog so it cant be that way, will take a look tho.
Uknaija: your mam was right!! thanks.
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hmm, it doesn't sound like I'm right there. Whenever I hear someone praising ppl for making waves in Nigeria, its usually the likes of Niyi Makanjuola and co, sometimes they talk about social entrepreneurs such as the folk at Leap Africa, but hardly ever anyone that started outside their parents' pocket....So I just assumed you were thinking in that same light. You're probably the first nigerian blogger i've met who is clearly interested in activism per se.
Everchange, Nigeria will not change until we all think outside the box. I assume you schooled abroad and have seen the winning formular employed by the west. They invest in a thinking youth which dictates their future. I have been fortunate enough to have mentors (something i have to get around to blogging about) and they helped me get to where i am today. I believe, Nigeria has to adopt the mentorship ideology so we rely less on who "our father is"...those that dont have fathers nko?
Ah, what an interesting point, mtb, the need for a mentoring system: I remember making this point months ago on Naijablog (or Ninjablog--since it seems to be more concerned with its author karate chopping readers, unless things have changed). As long as a system relies on "the father" and the "old boy network" it will never achieve any kind of equality or fairness. I apply this to the UK as much as Nigeria or anywhere else. I think you have hit the centre absolutely here. Actually, I think you assume wrong about Everchange, just as she assumed wrongly about you. And that is another problem with this kind of debate: people do a lot of assuming rather than look at real educational issues. Again you are correct: people need to see where a person really is coming from and think outside the box, not from inside the box of assumed prejudice. But I won't go on...
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