Angela Ukomadu's Blog

This was the first story I covered this year and it was a really fun one for me as I had to be a model for the one and only Laolu Sebanjo, the Afromysterics artist who came to limelight after working with  Beyonce on the Lemonade video. How cool is that? LOL    So earlier this year, pictures and talks of Laolu was all over my Instagram timeline. He was in Nigeria and was planning for a meet and greet at Bogobiri. I checked out his profile, saw pictures of body paints that wowed me. Now, I totally forgot my team had planned to profile him and was waiting for a chance visit to Nigeria. Well, to cut a long story short, my TV head made some calls and voila, he agreed to see us on same day he was traveling back to the United States.    Laolu is a 37 year old Nigerian from Kwara state. He is a visual artist, musician, and an attorney. Art, whether painting or singing is what he has always wanted to do because growing up, his grandmother shaped his love for art by always telling him

 There is this joke that most Nigerians do not know how to "mind their business." From the body movement, the very sly cough that suddenly manifests, the side eye they give you, the look, to the " un-looking " game, they are bound to make you understand that they know what you are doing or about to do.    While this may have its positive sides of making one always cautious of never going wrong, the negative sides cannot be overlooked too. Have you seen TV adverts of condom and how the buyer suddenly starts asking for biscuits even when they came to buy condoms? Just because they saw one nosy auntie or uncle at the pharmacy! I also remember the one of Lolo1 acting as a nurse and how she reacted when two teenagers came in to the hospital to find out more about safe sex.    Well, before we continue, I am 100 percent all for zipping up until the wedding night but we cannot ignore the fact that our youths are hitting it everyday. Yes it happens. While we preach for