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 Funke Treasure Durodola, a multiple award winning broadcast journalist and one of Radio Nigeria’s foremost Network Newscasters shares her unique experience as a traveller child in Western Nigeria of the 1980’s. In Memories of Grandma, her child hood memoir, she also critically engages with the thinking behind cultural choices from the eyes of a child. Grandmothers symbolise different things to children. For young Funke, Grandma could never do wrong, Grandma meant travel, variety of traditional meals, entry into the wisdom of the aged, folk tales, songs and an excursion into the strange world of adults, who ‘always have a reason for everything’. The setting is Western Nigeria of the early 80’s, when most Nigerians maintained vegetable gardens close to their homes, men rode Vespa’s motor cycles for leisure; when Peugot 404 was the cool car for mid-income families, when seeing a corpse on the street was rare and close to an abomination; when public schools were as good as the private ones. It was the days of King-sway and Leventis and Odutola stores in Ijebu Ode. The days without traffic gridlocks, when parents returned home early enough from the office, to be involved in their children’s growth. |
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