I'm not dead ...yet

Nope, I haven't forgotten my blog.  In fact, I have somewhere between 7 and 10 new posts coming up. In the past three weeks though, I have been traveling quite a bit for work, often with unstable electricity and/or internet connection (and security, but that's another story). I usually have a computer with me though, so I just type my feelings into MS Word, and eventually I will upload them here. It takes a bit of work (not the typing but the editing) to make the posts presentable, and add in photos and links etc. Kudos to the people who blog professionally, and even more so to my favorite video blog of all time Eat Your Kimchi (Simon and Martina, I don't know how you do it, and although I don't watch your videos anymore because they make me miss Korea too much - coping mechanism, suck it- I have mad respect for you). Matter of fact I have took the day off work today, so I am catching up on much needed relaxation time.

So where are you from? (Part 2)

Let's continue where I left off.

So, In Part One, I had told you my mother is 100% Nigerian, but I may be lying. Her grandmother and mother were almost as light as I am. She has cousins just as light as I am. In that region of Nigeria, there are many people who are light. So my hypothesis is that since that region has had interaction with white people for centuries, maybe somebody's daddy was a random sailor from a ship who headed back to Europe, and it was never talked about.  It’s our ongoing family joke. But I don't know if it's true or not. And it doesn't really even matter.

So where are you from? (Part 1)

Disclaimer: People have been asking for this post, and I was reluctant to write it. I felt that my ethnic background, and what I aim to achieve with this blog, are totally separate entities and therefore irrelevant. I don’t want to take away from the discourse, but in the end I was convinced to go ahead and write it, to give people an insight as to what shaped my decision to come to Nigeria.