I've been a long time i've been here - & blogville in general for that matter - that i suppose say una don forget abt me entirely. Forgive me una o, for d disappearance wey i don do & d ones wey i go still dey do.
So anyways, i've got a couple of things on my mind. And since blogville is the place where i unburden myself, i might as well just pour my heart out.
This is, i know nollywood is not a reflection of reality, but by jove some of the misinformation they pass across! Let's take for instance, this gets repeated over and over again: a man struggling to put food on his family's table (maybe drinking away a sizeable chunk of whatever money he manages to bring home), while the wife sits at home & whines about the sick children and how she is tired of all this poverty. The one thing i find wrong with this scenerio is that the woman is 100% dependent on her husband or whatever goodwill her parents can lend her.
This is not the woman i've encountered in my daily lives!!!!! The women i knew growing worked! The traded, sewed, swept, fried akra, just about anything. The one thing they sure didn't do was sit at home & wait for the man to bring home the money! The times i've seen it happen in reality in where the man is pretty comfortable (mostly where the dude works for an oil company). Still a good number of the wives of these men are holding down a sort of employment - beauty salons, supermarkets or they go to dubai to buy jeweries that they sell. Basically, i'd love to see these sort of women get enough attention nollywood. But then, i suppose they don't make for such a dramatic storyline.
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- So long as what you send is honest-to-God/candid, real-life experiences and relates to babies.
- For privacy, writers can chose to be anonymous, or use a penname.
- Should you want to publish under your own name, this is fine.
- While the blog is primarily for a Nigerian focus group, articles from everyone and anybody is welcomed.
- Inputs from health workers would be great.
- Relations who witnessed first-hand baby experiences are very free to write.
- Dads, of course.
- Submissions are to flourishingflorida@yahoo.com.
- For easy sorting of mail (so, they don’t end up in the spam), email subjects must be prefixed with ' BAMBI'.
- Please, expect some level of editing for the final publishing at the blog.
- New stories will be featured weekly, and the writers will be alerted once their stories are published.
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