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 Hello Blog,  It's 2022, I know. Where does the time go? In many ways it feels like it was just yesterday I sporadically started a blog. It feels like I am the same person even though it has been almost eight years, at the same time it feels like I am a completely different person.  I don't need to tell you how much I or the world has changed in the last eight years; how blogging is literally now obsolete, how our attention spans are now three seconds long; how I might not be able to sit through writing this entire blog post without distracting myself scrolling down meaningless reels and how I would be lucky if anyone ever read this blog post as it's not going to have any pictures or videos of me dancing to the latest trending insta song. If you got to paragraph three, BRAVO! So, let's get to the gist of this post or the ideas will get lost. About five, six probably seven years ago I had the idea to make a documentary about Dàda, locs, dreadlocks... The complexity of th...

Hello you, 2017 has come to an end and it has been a very mercurial year. The Locitude team and I are grateful for making it this far. One of my best moments was having to opportunity to speak at a local Tedx event in Lagos, Nigeria. It was indeed an honour to have spoken on such a platform. Nervous, is an understatement for how I felt addressing about 200 people in an auditorium and even more so knowing that a video of my presentation would be on YouTube potentially for life. However, I was pleased to have this conversation on what is likely insignificant to many but yet subconsciously relevant in our day to day existence. Our African Hair. The talk was given on the 19 th of August 2017 at the Ozone Cinema’s Yaba. If you haven’t already clicked play on the video link below, I think now is the perfect time. I am glad I gave this TedTalk and more than anything I have had the opportunity to look inwards and to myself be true. In the New Year I hope to find purity and co...