I do. My last European tour was in 2005/6. At the time we did a record called Lagos No Shaking with drummer Tony Allen. On the strength of my track on the album Awa Na Re, the band was invited to London and from there we toured Europe.

Appearance and presentation are keys to getting attention in the competitive market place.And as a way of transforming the image of many corporate organizations, Boye Falonipe, Principal Consultant at NOIR ENHANCEMENT, an Image Coaching firm in Lagos, Nigeria has come up with a book that addresses the issues of personal appearance and presentation as key issues in corporate branding. The book is titled, Succeeding with Appearance in Business and Career.

MSC Okolo’s collection of short stories is chameleonic in its simplicity. This simplicity by extension is aesthetically strengthened through the use of humour in three major ways: satire/sarcasm, wit, and irony.

For millions of Nigeria youths who have at one time or the other felt discouraged to take to writing as a vocation, last week’s grand award of the prestigious Nigeria’s Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG literature prize may have forced them to re-think their decision.

Writing in his best seller book, Power Shift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence in the Edge of the 21st Century, Alvin Toffler argues that the 21st century economy, power and wealth creation, against that of the preceding 20th century will be driven by the power of knowledge. He re-emphasized this stand by quoting Winston Churchill, who argues that “ empires of the future are empires of the mind.”