Child of God | Academic | Literary tastemaker | tattoo artist (“bigchiefwendy” on Instagram) | Co-founder: @yangabookclub
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Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
Please start teaching your children how to spell Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, they’ll need it for their civic education exam.
I’m already prepping myself for that 40 minutes walk to my polling center in Calabar in January. I need that person out of Aso Rock asaptually.
I just want to say that @Qoyeone does such beautiful music. Actually it’s been steady good music tonight from Ajoke, Uncle Luwa, Qoye and of course the light of my life @IniOluwa_lomo.
Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
You are unreadable. People that write prose this way do violence to the language. They lack creative authenticity and conflate their ability to induce headache in the reader with originality.
They are bad for the culture of reading and thinking in general.
It’s often always something of late, man. iPad I use for work and design has developed an issue. Now I need to fix it urgently. But I don’t even have the money for that right now. This year has just been a series of heartbreaking stressful shit and I am tired af.
I’ll be doing tattoos at Glimpse of Glory tomorrow. Also, the light of my life @IniOluwa_lomo is performing. So, come through.
1 day to go!
Glimpse of Glory Live🎤
🗓️October 31
⏰5 - 10 PM
📍The Yard, Bodija
Opening Acts: Ajoke, @IniOluwa_lomo @uncleluwa
DJ: @talut_kareem
Tattoos by @msnwangwa
🎟️: glimpseofglory.tikka.cloud
see you soon!💙
Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
We have made significant progress in redesigning the Igbo Apprenticeship System.
We have now signed an agreement with a German Ausbildung programme, one of the world’s most respected vocational training systems in the world.
We will be selecting 20 young people between the ages of 16 and 25 from across the five South-Eastern states for specialised training in various trades, including carpentry, plumbing, welding, masonry, and other technical skills.
The selected participants will first undergo nine months of intensive German language training in Enugu before securing Ausbildung placements and relocating to Germany for specialised vocational training.
Upon completing their training, they will return to Nigeria to train others, transferring their knowledge and expertise to local communities as we progressively expand the programme.
Our core focus is precision, technical excellence, and world-class craftsmanship.
We want to develop a generation of highly skilled professionals who can build infrastructure, transform industries, create jobs, and contribute meaningfully to the development of our society.
These are the people who will build the future of our region.
We are deliberately building the human capital required to transform the South East.
Ngwa (dialect of Igbo)
Direct: eti la m l’okwu
Not so direct variant: a cholam onu (which transliterates to “don’t find my mouth”)
Work I did today:
Frame one: free hand sketch. The stencil didn’t transfer as I wanted so I had to clean it and then sketch the thing with a marker.
Frame two: finished work. I can barely wait to see how this heals and what it would look like when the skin is less inflamed.
I’m excited to work on the client I have booked for 11am today. The tattoo is a lovely tramp stamp, and I look forward to doing it.
Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
Also, please try to ignore APC people this time. We outnumber them by a lot. They just have money (our commonwealth) to make themselves seem louder. Once the conversation is going beyond having a free and fair election, just leave it for them. That’s all any sensible person wants
Non-APC young people, we’ve organised before. #EndSARS was an example of what we can do together and for each other. That’s the energy we need for these elections. Only this time, many thanks to the shege BAT has shown everyone, we’re not alone anymore. Everybody is tired.
It’s weird af that any Yoruba person you disagree with is assigned an Igbo name as if being Igbo or having an Igbo name is a slur. It’s weird af.
Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
Non-APC young people, we’ve organised before. #EndSARS was an example of what we can do together and for each other. That’s the energy we need for these elections. Only this time, many thanks to the shege BAT has shown everyone, we’re not alone anymore. Everybody is tired.
Chinwendu Nwangwa retweeted
Hmmm. I visited somewhere a while ago. When we were there, we sat speaking to the host (who was significantly older to be a boss, even a parent). As we spoke, one of the "NEPO" babies joined us on the table. He was way younger but just kept contributing to the small talk.
On the other hand in the same room, there was another "LAPO" baby of the same age who was too shy to come and join the table. They just sat in one part of the room, away from the conversation happening.
That day, I saw the impact of wealth on audacity. Poverty robs you of more than what to eat or drink. It also takes the immediate capacity to see yourself as worthy of the table and being heard. It's why I hate it so much.
I’ll be doing tattoos all day on Thursday in Ibadan. If you want to get a small tattoo, please send me a DM so you can get a slot.
22 years ago, my dad died, and my life was changed in a fundamental way.
Every year on this day, I expect a different flavour of grief, and I often post a tribute to my father because yes, HRH Eze Dr. Monday Achilefu Nwangwa was a phenomenal person.
But today, the grief is not for the loss of my first best friend, even though I still miss him. Today, the grief is for my 8 year old self who not only lost her father and favourite person in the world at the time, but gradually lost the joys of being a child because adult males thought a child, who lost her father, and whose mother wasn’t often around because she had to work twice as hard to ensure all our material needs were met, was free game for them to sexually assault and abuse.
I wonder the person I would have been without all this pain shaping me. I guess I’d never know. So, today, I’ll read “Hold Me in Love, Hide Me in God”, an essay I wrote about that childhood pain and how it shaped my life, I’ll hug myself tight. I’ll pray that some days there’s less to grieve about. Say a prayer for me if that’s your thing.