Word: nigerians
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...most visionary of the new wave is Sealhenry Samuel, a.k.a. Seal. The London native, whose parents are Brazilian and Nigerian, took a year-long solo spiritual journey through Nepal, India and Thailand before returning to London on a tail wind of inspiration. Last year Seal, 29, released a namesake album intermingling soul, rock and blues hooks into a strikingly fresh hybrid. He also introduced a novel instrument in soul circles: a solo acoustic guitar, which vividly sets off his yearning, crackling voice. With its shifting rhythms and varied sonic textures, Seal shows that soul can accommodate unorthodox structures...
...also written The Anatomy ofArchitecture: Ontology and Metaphor in BatammalibaArchitectural Expression (1987), which wonseveral awards, Africa's Cross River: Art ofthe Nigerian-Cameroon Border (1980), The AfricanArt of Theater (1980) and Beauty and theBeast: A Study in Contrasts...
...intensely seductive, almost mesmerizing quality in her music has helped Helen Folosade Adu, the Anglo-Nigerian singer better known as SADE (pronounced Shah-day), sell more than 22 million copies of her first three albums. But the sameness of Sade's smooth, samba-scented love songs has always verged on monotony. Now, after a four-year silence, the singer is back with Love Deluxe (Epic), an album that is virtually indistinguishable from her previous ones. The final track, an overly long instrumental, underscores the fact that Sade has no new ideas. Anyone who owns an earlier Sade album would...
Locker did, but his message seemed to get through. The next yellow card went to BU 10 minutes later to junior forward Okereke Emesih, a pesky Nigerian who kept Harvard's defense backtracking all afternoon...
Some months later, I visited the beach at Badagry, not far from Lagos, Nigeria, which was an important slave-trading port, a place where manacles and other purported relics of the commerce in human beings are on display. The proprietor, an aging woman, told some Nigerian friends of mine that she would charge them 50 kobo (about $1) to examine the artifacts. You, she said, pointing to me, pay two naira (about $4). I protested that if the chains were indeed genuine, which I doubted, they might have been used to bind one of my ancestors; therefore, I didn...