Ambrose Ehirim
Articles by Ambrose Ehirim
January 22, 2012
Gerwine Bayo-Martins was born and raised in Hamburg, Northern Germany. Gerwin met her sweetheart, Bayo Martins, one of Africa´s finest drummers in the music of the day while doing voluntary work at the Biafran Committee office in Germany. A lover of art and music, Gerwine, in this interview, ...
December 05, 2011
"Our struggle is a positive commitment to build a healthy, dynamic, and progressive state which will be a bulwark against neocolonialism, and the pride of Black men the world over. The failure of the Nigerian experiment was a tragic result of a refusal by both Nigeria and the world to recognize, acc...
November 01, 2011
I am not the only one who had thought the whole idea was crazy, even though I had overlooked it as a rhetorical garbage, hearing about it as a speculation and what the news outlets had gathered.
am not the only one who felt the pain that a brother in a new line of attack wants his own brother per...
October 18, 2011
The last time I was at any Imo State-related meeting was in 2007 when former governor of the state, Ikedi Ohakim had "just" been elected into office and the Southern California chapter of Nd´Imo, in a quick fix, organized and confirmed Ohakim´s formal visit to Los Angeles. I was in the s...
October 02, 2011
I spent most of the late evening of September 30, 2011 through the wee hours of October 01, 2011, combing Nigeria´s daily newspapers as the nation celebrates its 51 years of independence from British colonial rule. Most of the headlines were saying the same thing – that a reformed Nigeria is simply ...
August 11, 2011
I bumped into Professor Alvin Lim at West African Documentary (WAD) that I begun at Facebook, trying to explore the concepts of the region, and at the same time putting research into perspective on the vagaries and uncertainties of an entire continent that has so much to offer in terms of human capi...
July 17, 2011
I´m very honored to be compared to Oprah, who has been a big inspiration to my life. Having said that, I would not emulate Oprah´s style of dressing and personal presentation because I´m a different breed that possesses a different type of body.
June 05, 2011
I had bumped into Ikedi Ohakim, former Governor of Imo State, at Facebook and we became friends based on the network´s prescription for connection. Not only were we just Facebook friends, Ohakim was the governor of my home state, Imo, one of the 36 states in Nigeria, lying to the South of Nige...
March 14, 2011
The Queen´s English is no longer relevant with today´s generation as a result of cultural shift. It has been way gone, resurfacing in what has evolved over time to this present, twisted generation. The new millennia generation and a technology that´s doing stuff; stuff nobody could...
March 05, 2011
Wake up everybody
No more sleeping in bed
No more backward thinking
Time for thinking ahead
The world´s change so very much
For what it use to be
There is so much hatred
War and poverty
----Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
"I thought you said it's happening."
"What's happenin...
March 06, 2011
At last year's Pan African Film and Arts Festival at the Culver Plaza Complex, filmmakers Rahman Oladigbolu, Odera Ozoka, Pascal Atuma, Hollywood publicist Ngozi Mba, myself and several other filmmakers joined us at the after party events and we've been talking ever since...Great guy!
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November 29, 2010
A whole lot of discourse seems to be taking place these days especially with the fast approaching Nigeria general elections which obviously has been full of uncertainties. Some of us, without a doubt, cannot stand the hogwash surrounding Nigeria´s political environment and when one considers a...
September 17, 2010
Born Nkem Okotcha in Enugu, Nigeria, and writes with the pen name, Myne Whitman, she talks about her humble beginnings, her new book, interests and the future. Her new book, "A Heart To Mend" can be purchased anywhere books are sold.
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Much has been said already. But my readers would l...
September 03, 2010
A whole lot of interesting stuff regarding the incubation of Nigerian music and legend of the arts have popped up, and the debates has been fascinating and engaging. It is no baby talk. It is real and serious. Comb Razor who had blogged for quite some few years now, and who I did exchange correspond...
August 12, 2010
In my several conversations with beautifully built, Zambian-born, Orlando, Florida-based, Kaya Chipungu, there's no doubt she'd been determined to be the best in her class, whatever form it takes. Aspiring to work for the United Nations after taking on International Relations as major in college, Ch...
August 06, 2010
The Miss Teen United Nations International is calling and sixteen year old Maleele Choongo will be representing her native land, Zambia, for the Miss Teen United Nations International Final Contests scheduled to be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in September.
At sixteen, it's amazing what Choongo ...
July 23, 2010
Once upon a time, in what had been presumed as Greater Los Angeles area resident's "VIP" of Igbo stock at a hangout of champaign and isi ewu, goat head meal, a club was born. The club was called members of the house or something like that in the founders native tongue. The club had been tailored to ...
July 14, 2010
He was the Chief Priest, Fela Anikulapo Kuti's boy, back in the day, when Afro Beat, coined by Kuti, was the bomb at Baba's African Shrine where all kinds of rituals took place to reinvent a culture that was disappearing within its landscape. He speaks well of Baba who inspired him in what he now do...
May 22, 2010
"Have you been to Jerry's Place yet?"
"What's that?"
"Oh, you mean you don't know and haven't heard about it?"
"No, I haven't! What's that, and what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the latest Nigerian joint in town. There, the food is great and you will love it. You will be gl...
March 13, 2010
They started from slaughtering my kith and kin in the early years of the republic -- beheading them, murdering pregnant women and their unborn children. A horrific event and a tragedy. They kill and brag about it and I have been weary of pointing out.
Killing their fellow human beings especially ...
February 02, 2010
"NaijaPolitics's Group Description: NaijaPolitics ´Mat´ is a Political Crossfire of Nigerian politics. A group dedicated to Gavel-to-Gavel discussion of political developments in Nigeria -Africa's largest democracy. A place where Political Pundits, Political Analysts, Policy Analysts, Po...
January 21, 2010
Life was certainly easing up a little bit with a hopeful upcoming prosperous better year in a matter of days as the war on terror seemed to be waning; though, the emergence of Taliban in Afghanistan had taken a new dimension for the United States and its allies in fighting the terrible war on terror...
December 31, 2009
One had thought the new milleniun would bring back sanity, good governance, transparency and accountability in Nigeria's neo-democratic fabric of the Fourth republic, from the probabilities of correcting the social ills and misrule of the past by the military juntas and corrupt civilian politicians ...
November 18, 2009
On October 30, 2009, my buddy, classical music basoonist and pianist, Rudolph Porter, had agreed to locate a spot "and we can hang out." Culver Club was the place. He had performed there before. And Culver Club is where West Coast finest jazz pereformers display their arts, and it is a place of hang...
October 16, 2009
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
By Chinua Achebe
Alfred A. Knopf
208 pages. $24.95
Growing up and as youngsters dealing with academia at the secondary level, "we the boys" talked a whole lot about scholarship and applauded the works of our literary idols -- Chinua Achebe, Jo...
September 24, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen;
I would like to use this opportunity to salute my campaign managers Uzontiri Ijemere, Nchamere Nd'Igbo, Adannaya Okwuchukwu, Chidubem Udumotali, Otapiapia Ohiaukwu, Magnus Ibezim Onumaraekwu, Jacob "Nwa-Jesu" Garagara and uncountable others who had made this august event pos...
September 10, 2009
The festival has been on for so many years with lots of African cultural heritage, fanfare and some good, good stuff to promote botany from motherland with the ideal the origin of man began from the African continent, from the passing of Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens, the modern man, as scientific an...
August 31, 2009
The beginning of summer could be viewed as the opening scene of a movie. Shots into the night. The crews and casts. The concerts from every recreational park on the goodwill of every city or county's department of culture, and on the sponsorship of the big rollers in today's commerce -- Heineken, Lu...
August 25, 2009
The last time I was in the Bay Area, I did not pay much attention to the goings on, particularly Oakland from around which I hadn't been anywhere in the city for quite some time. It had been in and out, business as usual, so, not much to talk about in that regard. But this time around, a whole lot t...
August 04, 2009
Whew, yes, it's summer time and I'm just having a blast. Guess what? It's Leimert Park week and the showdown is few days away. The line up, too, is interesting.
First, I ran into Swiss-based Congolese model, Songia Poupee, whose concept of a new women's handbag had been on display at African Trea...
July 06, 2009
As a baked in the gene music freak and one grew up embracing an era music of all genre evolved and had been basically the same in terms of studio time sessions when crossovers could play in any band, regardless, which brought about the best generation, ever, and with Michael, according to the origin...
June 29, 2009
June 25, 2009, was what looked like a beautiful day when I woke up in the morning for another thank Lord, I made it day, feeling summer all around me. And the coastal weather did look nice through the afternoon. Nobody had expected any sad story, not of Michael Jackson.
Around some minutes after ...
June 25, 2009
Books, academic journals, newsmagazines, newspapers, your hood free papers on your doorsteps, the freebies we bump into on our way to run errands and the take that, it's free that comes in your mailbox just to get informed in every aspect of life endeavors is honestly what keeps body and mind one. W...
June 23, 2009
My readers -- the ones I bump into in the hood, on the streets of Los Angeles and in events -- have complained about the abandonment of my thorough political commentaries and Igbo-related cultural analysis I have been known for, wondering what brought about such a swift change. No. Nothing changed. ...
June 15, 2009
I have been working out lately on the Westside and boy, how does it feel to dabble into affluent old folks trying to stay in shape to keep up with their long life and prosperity mission. Sounds good and we all are trying to push it further, now that "life," they say "begins at 60;" and with the summ...