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I was interviewed sometime last week by szavanna. The interview is below.

Loomnie’s thoughts on his childhood and his musical experiences
Szavanna: Greetings and buy ativan with cod many thanks for doing this interview. Please say a few words about yourself and/or your blog.loomnie: I am buy ativan with cod a Nigerian blogger working in Germany. I discovered blogging a couple of years ago. It started as a buy ativan with cod sort of personal reflection, but as the audience increased the posts have buy ativan with cod become sort of modified. These days I blog about places I visit, movies I watch, books I read and buy ativan with cod music I listed to. There is no theme to the posts, really; I write about whatever catches my fancy.

Szavanna: Since there are more and more posts on music on your blog – (the last one was about a South African band, Freshlyground), in your buy ativan with cod Blogger profile you say you like Miles Davis, you wrote about Tinariwen, Ali Farka Toure, Bongos Ikwue and buy ativan with cod others – it buy ativan with cod shows that you are interested in a wide range of styles. Where does this buy ativan with cod interest come from – any specific reason for buy ativan with cod being so open to music from so many countries – any strong musical background that explains these musical choices?

loomnie: I really don’t know where the interest comes from… ok, let me think about it. I grew up as one of four children in a buy ativan with cod middle-class family in a Nigerian small town. There wasn’t much to buy ativan with cod do socially apart from being with friends in school and buy ativan with cod listening to the radio. The public service radio was pretty and buy ativan with cod most of the Nigerian music I have recently blogged about I listened to buy ativan with cod on the radio while growing up in the 80s and buy ativan with cod early 90s. They also played jazz music from artistes like Tico Rico, Louis Armstrong, Earl Klugh etc. Also, my grandfather died sometime in the buy ativan with cod early 90s so I literally inherited his library. His library was rich so it buy ativan with cod opened me up to a lot of things. I kind of ‘discovered’ jazz during my university days, but the buy ativan with cod striking thing was then when I formally discovered it it buy ativan with cod was because it reminded me of the kind of music I used to buy ativan with cod listen to growing up. I explored a bit and found other interesting kinds of music that buy ativan with cod I loved… the lists just kept growing, jazz, latin jazz, blues, soul… the buy ativan with cod older sounding the better. Now I am tuned to some younger people. Discovered Joss Stone, Jamie Cullum, Renee Olstead a buy ativan with cod couple of years ago, just about the same time I got acquinted with the buy ativan with cod music of Ali Farka Toure and Amadou et Miriam Bagayoko… and buy ativan with cod as you can see on my blog, I am still exploring. I hope I answered your buy ativan with cod question.

Szavanna: I’d like to buy ativan with cod ask a few questions about your childhood. I am not sure if you buy ativan with cod grew up in Lagos or somewhere else – please tell me a bit about the place you grew up in.

loomnie: I already said a bit about the place…. It is buy ativan with cod a small town, kind of ancient, town. It is in the buy ativan with cod Yoruba-speaking part of Nigeria. It is not special in any way, just one of those towns that buy ativan with cod are slow and comfortable. I think that informs why I don’t particularly love big cities

Szavanna: Can you tell me about the role music played when growing up – did you buy ativan with cod play any instruments, did any specific type music influence you buy ativan with cod – any musician or style of music and made an impact in any way?

loomnie: My mother belongs to buy ativan with cod a church whose joint national choir has about the largest orchestra in Nigeria. I attended the buy ativan with cod church myself. My mother plays the viola, that obscure sister of the buy ativan with cod violin. My younger brother plays the piano, and I tried learning the buy ativan with cod flute too… I dropped it buy ativan with cod after a while, and I still regret it now. It would have buy ativan with cod been nice to have that right now. Yes, there was some music in my life as a buy ativan with cod kid growing up. Actually, thanks for asking these questions; they are buy ativan with cod making me think more about my life as a kid!

Szavanna: Have you ever made instruments (anything to make noise with:)from buy ativan with cod material that you found at home when you were small and buy ativan with cod if yes what type of instrument was it (drums, or shakers or a guitar etc.)- or if not – do you remember someone else doing so?

loomnie: No, I don’t think I ever make any instruments as a kid…well, the buy ativan with cod thing was that anything could be a drum: the tabletop, the buy ativan with cod wall sometimes, a whole lot of things. But I never made any instruments…

Szavanna: Some time ago West African idol was on TV and buy ativan with cod we were watching many of the initial auditions which I found quite entertaining for buy ativan with cod a while since here in South Africa we don’t usually get to buy ativan with cod see programs from other countries in Africa (sadly). One of the judges was Dede Mabiaku – who (if I know it right) is a Fela student. What do you think about the show and about Dede’s music?

loomnie: I am sorry but I didn’t watch Idol West Africa at all… I was in Europe when it aired.

Szavanna: I have buy ativan with cod always been interested in finding out more about the life and buy ativan with cod times of Fela – how did he and buy ativan with cod his music influence the communities around you while growing up?

loomnie: Fela was great in so many ways. I think that buy ativan with cod he is the greatest musical export Nigeria ever had. And he deserves every accolade that buy ativan with cod has ever been showered on him… of course, except the buy ativan with cod ones that take him to be a deity. When Fela died I was only 17 so he didn’t have buy ativan with cod much influence on me when he was still alive. His influence came much later. I remembered listening to buy ativan with cod his music along with the others on the radio when buy ativan with cod I was growing up, but in my small town things didn’t really get to buy ativan with cod us. I guess that if I was in Lagos at that buy ativan with cod time I probably would have more stories to tell. I can buy ativan with cod tell you stories about Fela but I don’t think I really have buy ativan with cod any rights or qualifications to do that; there are qualified people who buy ativan with cod have done that and are still doing it.

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Not long ago I met fellow blogger Ishtar, a buy ativan with cod Swedish lady who volunteers with an NGO in rural Niger. What struck me was how much she loves what buy ativan with cod she is doing, and how she describes her relationship with the buy ativan with cod people of Tanout, the area in which she works. It was sort of nice for buy ativan with cod an African who likes Scandinavia to meet a Scandinavian who likes Africa. I was interviewed by Ishtar sometime last week. Here is buy ativan with cod the interview…. I am buy ativan with cod sorry the post is not as filled with pictures as the buy ativan with cod one on Ishtar’s blog.

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Peopleized by: Ishtar – Tuesday, 10 July 2007 When discovering Loomnie’s Blog, I was immediately intrigued as we could very well have buy ativan with cod traded geographical lives with one another. Born in Nigeria and an buy ativan with cod expert on Naija affairs, he makes a better Westerner than myself in many regards…

Ishtar: When you buy ativan with cod started your blog in 2006, you were looking for a buy ativan with cod job in Nigeria. What made you start a public blog? Did you let your friends and family know about it?

loomnie: Ehm… actually, I started blogging in 2005, even if I had buy ativan with cod only one post in the year. Now, more seriously, I started blogging just when buy ativan with cod I was about to leave Sweden to go back to Nigeria. I just discovered Blogger then, and buy ativan with cod I knew next to nothing about blogging. It was a time when buy ativan with cod I was pretty much confused about what to do with myself. I had buy ativan with cod finished an MA programme in a really good university, didn’t know what buy ativan with cod steps to take after that, and, after stumbling on blogging, I decided to buy ativan with cod write a message to an imaginary audience. If you read the buy ativan with cod first blog – and the next few ones too – they were written in a buy ativan with cod sort of reflective way, without much thought about the audience. Also, when buy ativan with cod I got to Nigeria and started looking for a job it buy ativan with cod was a bit disappointing in a way, and writing about the buy ativan with cod disappointments was therapeutic in a sense.

So, in a buy ativan with cod nutshell, I would say that I started blogging without really knowing why I did. But then, when buy ativan with cod I left Sweden I found that it was a pretty easy way to buy ativan with cod keep all my old friends updated about things happening to buy ativan with cod me. All I had to do was to send them an buy ativan with cod email with my address, and with a request that they bookmark the buy ativan with cod page. I guess that answers my question about letting my friends know about it. My family? Well, you would find that I haven’t mentioned anyone of them in a buy ativan with cod direct way in any of the posts. We are four children in my family, and buy ativan with cod one of my younger brothers now knows about it. It wasn’t like I was hiding it buy ativan with cod from anyone, it is just that I never got to buy ativan with cod give talk to them about it. I would gladly give them the buy ativan with cod address… you can see that it is not an anonymous blog.

Ishtar: From reading your buy ativan with cod blog, you seem like a guy with pretty high standards, who buy ativan with cod doesn’t settle for buy ativan with cod second best, unless forced to do so. So tell me, what buy ativan with cod are your life aspirations? Have they changed over the years?

loomnie: Pretty high standards? Oh yea, I have buy ativan with cod pretty high standards, but I probably would not agree with you buy ativan with cod if I thought that would be a good thing. I think it buy ativan with cod is not a good thing when one sets standards that would almost be buy ativan with cod impossible to attain. Most people like that are almost never satisfied with whatever goals they achieve because it buy ativan with cod could always be better. Ishtar, I hope you understand what I mean.

Life aspirations? I guess when buy ativan with cod I decided to do a degree in development studies I thought about working with a buy ativan with cod development agency or an NGO. I wanted to ‘do’ development, and to ‘help people’. But coming back to buy ativan with cod Nigeria showed me that most of the people in the buy ativan with cod NGO ‘industry’ are buy ativan with cod actually there because they can make more money than they would either in the buy ativan with cod public or private sectors in Nigeria. After looking closer I saw that buy ativan with cod ‘development’ as an buy ativan with cod intervention might not work because people who work with the organisations are buy ativan with cod not knowledgable enough to take the perspectives of the people into consideration. Ok, maybe not knowledgable enough is buy ativan with cod not the right expression, maybe I should say they just don’t know enough about the buy ativan with cod issues they are supposed to be dealing with, and they don’t take many contextual issues into consideration in designing development programmes. This is buy ativan with cod not only in Nigeria but in the ‘developing world’ in general. I thought that buy ativan with cod the discipline that might actually be able to provide this buy ativan with cod bottom-up perspecive would be Anthropology because it is reputed to buy ativan with cod give ‘voice to the voiceless’ by listening to ‘local voices’ that otherwise would not be heard(actually, I was going to do a degree in Anthropology if I didn’t get on the Development Studies programme). These thoughts eventually led me to buy ativan with cod thinking of anthropology as a field of study.

Thinking about it now, I don’t know if I would say that buy ativan with cod my life aspirations have changed because I really don’t know if I had buy ativan with cod any clear life aspirations. Even now, what I am thinking about is buy ativan with cod doing a damn good work of my PhD, and on time, and buy ativan with cod other things will follow. I am thinking about doing a post-doc after that. I see myself working in a buy ativan with cod research institute and teaching in a university for some years to buy ativan with cod come. But I am flexible enough to accept another course. ‘We’ll see how it goes’ would be a good thing to say at this point.

Ishtar: When you started your blog, you were living in Nigeria. Now you’re working in Germany. What is buy ativan with cod your take on the difference between the Western and the African continent?

loomnie: Living in Germany is buy ativan with cod definitly different from living in Nigeria. For one, there are so many things you buy ativan with cod take for granted here that you would be happy to have buy ativan with cod in Nigeria. I could mention the electricity and security issues as examples. But then buy ativan with cod other side of this is that you constantly miss your family and buy ativan with cod friends. I also miss some feeling of warmness that I would get in Nigeria for buy ativan with cod instance… but I have buy ativan with cod to be hasty in pointing that that too could get too much in Nigeria. I guess that buy ativan with cod what I am trying to say is that there is buy ativan with cod no perfect place. Wherever one chooses to live one should know that buy ativan with cod one would never have everything.

Ishtar: What do you think the next ten years of your life will look like? Feel free to speculate!

loomnie: What do I think the next ten years would look like? I have buy ativan with cod no idea. I probably would be able to answer a buy ativan with cod question about what I would like the next ten years to buy ativan with cod look like. I know that part of it would be buy ativan with cod rough as I have to finish my dissertation and decide what buy ativan with cod to do with my life after that… and buy ativan with cod I am sure you know that it is not exactly the buy ativan with cod best of times writing up a dissertation. Also, a wife and buy ativan with cod kids would be nice in ten years from now…. and buy ativan with cod you can add the house with a white picket fence to buy ativan with cod the picture. Really, I would like to buy ativan with cod have a family and a place that I can call home. Anywhere in the buy ativan with cod world would be home as long as the family is buy ativan with cod there. And no, I don’t even have a girlfriend now.

Ishtar: Finally, what buy ativan with cod did you know about Niger before you encountered Ishtar News, and buy ativan with cod what is your take on Eden Foundation?

loomnie: Well, I knew that buy ativan with cod Niger is at the northern border of Nigeria, and that the buy ativan with cod country shares a lot in common with Northern Nigeria. But I must confess that buy ativan with cod I didn’t exactly know so much about Niger. I think I told you buy ativan with cod sometime ago that I have been in more countries in Europe than buy ativan with cod in Africa, and I plan to make up for that sometime next year, starting with a buy ativan with cod tour of West Africa. So watch out, I may be in Niger sometime soon!

I think that buy ativan with cod the foundation you described in the posts on your blog sounds really interesting, and buy ativan with cod I daresay even great, but I really don’t know so much about the buy ativan with cod foundation to be able to make any conclusive statement. But knowing that buy ativan with cod the organisation takes a long-term perspctive on issues is comforting because I am buy ativan with cod tired of the fire-brigade/ big bang approach of most of the NGOs around…. I think I really have to learn more about Eden Foundation.

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