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NIGERIA! MY NIGERIA!

Hi All,

My names Efefiong Udo Akpan are peculiar to the Bantu race, of the West African coastline. Claiming this heritage close to the Congo basin, usually gives me some kicks.

I was born to a teacher turned policeman, and a strict school teacher for a mother. She influenced my firm character, while his library volumes equipped me for a writing life.

Today I am eager to reach a wider set of humanity, that will of course expose and teach me more. Perhaps a scholarship would do, especially for intriguing intellectual pursuits.

However a Bachelors Degree, Communications Arts/Music may not have sufficed for all my venturous desires.Hitherto with 15 years of across-media and team building experience,including an intuitive talent to originate content for media programming, I am focused on embracing the most of new media. This will enable creativity on strategies, production, product standards and future
technology direction in a competitive landscape.

My Case and My Thought

Nigeria is a lingering giant on a false step to greatness. Believe me I am a Nigerian, but don't feel Nigerian.

I wonder away in my thoughts to imagine 50years of Independence only produced dependence on our former colonizers.

If I had coin to toss. I will choose the flip side of being a true Nigerian, inspired by the founding fathers of Africa's Blackest Negro.

Now spent in the wanderings of my thoughts. I am lost in wonderment of my life. In the following weeks, months and years: I will choose to chronicle the story of College Girl created from my imaginations, and the unfolding drama of life. Just the briefs:

I just feel out of place, when as a man I decry social negotiations based sexual favours for social favours most of the time in Nigeria. I am scriptwriting a TV Serial, 'Lavender Pearl: ' A graduating college girl, keeps devising ways to get out of a relationship with her arrogant boyfriend, a successful oil industry executive, who rides on her father’s bid to secure a political ambition; to be with her preferred scion of the industry, currently a hustler without a decided future.

Premise:

What if a graduating college girl finally gets out of a relationship with an arrogant and successful oil industry executive(Jeremiah): preferred by her father, with which she had hoped for a happy and secured marriage, and opts for a fun-filled life time with a hustler(Irem) without a definite future; yet must beat an unfolding conflict in her father’s bid to better his economic and political fortunes through Jeremiah.

Episode 1:

NECESSITY

Priye's friend and feminist NGO President, Katie on failing to talk through a main number, virtually invades Armour Fix Projects(Oil related firm) office to get an alternative phone from an aunt, Ms. Alison; and ends up creating opportunity for Jeremiah(CEO) to meet our heroin(Priye).

Tags: Nigeria, female, fortunes, industry, oil, politics, romance, security

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Comment by Efefiong Akpan on September 8, 2010 at 12:11pm: Soon as we cross into second season; perhaps the threshold will be Episode 13. For now Priye is resisting any knowledge of her affair warming up in Episode 7(we'll get there). She indeed refuses to have a meeting with her aunt Ms Alison and mum Mrs. Alison. She tries to even evade a direct answer to a direct question from Katie, her mentor, an activist and feminist; who doesn't want the arrogant Jeremiah to marry Priye, because it will derail her feminist cause in the Port Harcourt Metropolis.

Mean time Ms Alison wants Priye in Jeremiah's arms; because she will gain favours from the guy, who is her direct boss at Arnour Fix Oil Services.

Thanks for the response,even as the story gets murkier please be there. It's interesting!

Comment by Louise Vance on September 8, 2010 at 11:05am: This episode featuring the discussion between Priye and her parents is so important and so timeless. It really gets to the core of one of the main issues of life here on earth - and that is fear for their daughter's well being, which seems to be part of why they want her to settle down and be "protected" by a husband. But is it also the parents avoiding being shamed because Priye may step out of the conventional role? Are they somehow embarrassed by her boldness?

Comment by Efefiong Akpan on September 7, 2010 at 11:05pm: Episode 3:
Priye discusses the future with her parents, Chief and Mrs. Alison: both hoping their daughter will find life
easier in the unpredictable and competitive today’s economy, the mother makes a indirect reference to chances
of marriage.Trust Priye, she is dubiously evasive. After all this is their life, not theirs.

Comment by Efefiong Akpan on August 23, 2010 at 3:58am: Episode 2: Kate Jack is learning a lesson between two extremes of womanhood: The Man Eater and The Man Hater. Priye appears to be the Man Hater, while Madeline, a girl about town with her friend's husband, trying to withdraw , is the Man Eater. When the two meet at the cross-roads of womanhood: Katie might discern a pathway for empowering women.

Comment by Efefiong Akpan on August 21, 2010 at 4:35pm: You're right! Nigeria's culture was skewed long ago by military intervention in national politics. This promoted social hedonism; because there was so much money during the oil boom era 1975-1980. We lost most of our moral culture to buying hedonism from everywhere in the world. That is where we are now, growing in rot, lost in rot!

Comment by dmv on August 21, 2010 at 10:22am: Efefiong,

What an interesting post, and a fascinating take on how people can use arts and culture to effect lasting change. Political winds change and change, but the values of culture are the foundations upon which societies are built.

Thanks for posting.

Comment by Efefiong Akpan on August 21, 2010 at 12:20am: Really: you will have to believe me. Women actually solicit for sexual compromises to get what they want. It is over and over like prostitutes soliciting for clients. Teachers, politicians, clergies name them simply come into the realm of using their 'powers' to get sexual payments. Bottom-line is everyone calls a woman's body, 'market!' Therefore it is common to hear 'You know that is her market.'

I believe if Bill Clinton had used his position to have 'sex' with Monica, the Nigerian politician will believe it is done in America, why not here. So in hoping to copy America to protect people from sexual harassment, what could be possibly done?

Back to 'Lavender Pearl' Priye our beautiful bride with sexual abstinence seeks love. Everyone around gives advice to enable her attain that elixir of social security. Her mentor Katie Jack, a feminist NGO president advises on the struggle an average woman comes into:

EXCERPTS:
PRIYE
Why are women still far from heaven in the Twenty First Century? Why is the struggle so long?

KATIE
When we surrender our virginity to love, marriage and motherhood, you’re on a lifelong struggle.

Priye smiles.

KATIE (CONT'D)
But Priye you will have children; so keeping your virginity will be like refusing to feed a toddler with solid food.We all grow into the struggle.

END EXCERPT

Even if we had a law in Nigeria, will women help it? On campuses a few teachers have been terminated for sexual indiscretion; but how soon will women in Nigeria help the matter? I'm sorry most young girls prostitute straight from homes: under 'parental supervision!'

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ALL LIVE THIS ILLUSIONARY AMERICAN/WESTERN LIFE-LIVING ABOVE ANYONE'S MEANS IS DANGEROUS!

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