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As an African, particularly Nigerian, why must you find the English name for what is Nigerian/African, and decide to replace the original name of what is Nigerian/African, with something alien to it? And worst of all, you do not even bother to ask, what are Nigerian/African names for some of the things we use in our day-to-day lives.

You might think it does not matter, and the fact that you are able to think like that in the first place is extremely disturbing. I mean very very very disturbing. Somebody has seen to it that we should not think, and it is up to us determine the success of that person.

1. Jerican
2. Bucket
3. Gas
4. Roof
5. Ceiling
6. Pineapple
7. Watermelon
8. Soya beans
9. Purple
10. Excuse
11. Bureaucracy
12. Democracy
13. Conservative
14. Office
15. Receptionist
16. Alarm
17. Femur
18. Elbow
19. Matches
20. Lighter

How many of these words do you know in any indigenous African languages?

If you notice the specificity of some of these words, the realisation should hit you why a huge amount of Nigerian/African indigenous languages are a bit difficult to formalise.

But don't just peg it on that, it is like that because you have neglected the importance, the foreign languages you use today are extremely not what it was 50 year ago, not to talk of a 100 years back and more.

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Sometimes, if not in most cases, what stops us from doing what we plan (chasing our dreams, launching that project, picking up that registration form, signing up for that programme) is perfectionist inertia.

The online Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines inertia as "the inherent property of a body that makes it oppose any force that would cause a change in its motion."

In simpler terms, when something is at rest and you try to move it, you experience resistance, slight or significant, depending on what you are dealing with. Inertia is also at work when something is in motion and you want to change its direction.

We all experience this at different levels, stages, and moments of our lives. You find it difficult to start something, or you struggle with it before eventually doing it or giving up.

Inertia comes in different shades. Mine was a perfectionist shade, and I experienced it while making this episode.

Listen to find out how I broke my inertia.

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Disruptive changes that lead to ground shifting changes in your life will in most cases come with quite a very high price.

This episode is one of such...

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Sometimes, and sometimes all of the times, I talk within specific context, a little on my background, and you get the internal joke whenever it drops.

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This is my first unfiltered recording, making use of what I have, where I am, and however I can "just do it". Sometimes these things are like certain discomfort locked up in the bones, finding a way to "just" be let out. The polishing is in the art.

This is the personal journal of a philosophy and the philosophy of a personal journal.

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