Nigeria: Making Music With Obey At Ago Iwoye

12 September 2014

This past Monday was a very eventful day. About 10 am, I set out with my colleagues, Chinedu and Mary on what turned out to be an expedition. I thought I knew Ogun State reasonably well. I was wrong. Chinedu was certain that Olabisi Onabanjo University was right on the very busy Shagamu-Benin highway. He was wrong.

It became clear that we did not know where we were going to. Is our country a nation that is running without first walking? In an age when almost every new car that arrives Nigeria is fitted with the global positioning satellite or GPS, there are practically no road signs directing you to wherever you are going to. I do not even know what my zip code is. Do you know yours? So, we move around like the blind and things that are so simple elsewhere are so difficult here. Chinedu, Mary and I had no choice but to ask everyone we saw how to get to Olabisi Onababjo University.

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