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Nice pics!......Particularly like the one showing the panoramic view of Enugu!

CYPRIAN EKWENSI: BURNING GRASS

POSTED BY ENEFAA ON JAN 10, 2015 IN LITERATURE

Burning Grass was first published in 1962 and like a lot of novels by Cyprian Ekwensi, the plot takes place in the northern part of Nigeria. This is the third novel in our series on works by Cyprian Ekwensi.
Mai Sunsaye is the chief of his Fulani cattle herding settlement called Dokan Toro. He is a doctor to the people, a specialist in making charms and amulets and also has the ability to tell the people their fortunes. He is like a general practitioner, a psychiatrist and a fortune teller all rolled into one. Probably your typical native doctor back in the day.
He is the leader of his village Dokan Toro and although he is widely respected by the villagers, he is engaged in a power struggle with Chief Ardo who wants to be the chief of the settlement. Ardo inflicts Sunsaye with Sokugo, a charm of the Fulani. Sokugo Magic causes men to wander off deserting their families and leaving their previous lives behind. Men suffering from Sokugo are also unable to settle in a place for a few days. If a man suffering from Sokugo refuses to continue his wandering he falls seriously ill.
Sunsaye deserts his family and sets off on an aimless quest. He lies to himself that he’s going in search of a lady that fled with his son Hodio but which he has promised to bring back home to his last son Rikku. With Sunsaye out of town, Ardo is able to run Sunsaye’s family out of Dokan Toro and make himself the leader of the village.
The plot from then on follows Sunsaye on his wanderings through several villages, characters and his eventual cure from Sokugo,reuniting with his family and eventual return to Dokan Toro.
In my junior secondary school days, any student you saw in different places within a short time span and who did not not seem to have a clear purpose to his appearances in different locations was said to be suffering from “Sokugo” the wandering disease. At the time I thought this was something from a Chinua Achebe story. It didn’t even cross my mind that this was from a Cyprian Ekwensi story. I think it is safe to assume that this was part of the senior secondary school literature curriculum because I never came across this book as my literature studies ended in junior secondary school.
It is a fun read but definitely not one of my best Cyprian Ekwensi novels.

http://artsymoments.com/2015/01/10/cyprian-ekwensi-burning-grass/

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This post by Enefaa in the blog brings back memories of my childhood when i discovered Cyprian Ekwensi novels! His books magically transported me to the north even though i had never set foot there at the time! Back then i had a good impression of the place....though it was before i started reading and learning of the negative stuff!

Anyone know why Ekwensi set the plots/stories of many of his novels in the north.....was he born there?

ezeagu:
I just found these amazing pictures of Enugu by Enefaa @ http://artsymoments.com/2015/05/07/artsy-city-enugu/

I can bet with my last dollar that this picture can pass for a downtown neighborhood in Lisbon! The real estate value in the South East is mind boggling.I wonder when we shall acknowledge the roles of facility management/managers in sustaining and appreciating property value.
It is well with us+we shall get there...

ezeagu:
Enefaa @ http://artsymoments.com/2015/05/07/artsy-city-enugu/

ab
I dont know if any other person can imagine it because am already conceiving the idea of building a holiday resort at the summit of these hills, and still retain the flora and fauna like we have at Indaba Motel,Four Ways Johannesburg South Africa.Except in our own case,cable cars can be built to connect the resort to the city centre given that road construction will alter much of the natural habitat.Nature is ours to conquer! It is well+we shall get there..Ndewo nu!

IGBOSON1:
CYPRIAN EKWENSI: BURNING GRASS

POSTED BY ENEFAA ON JAN 10, 2015 IN LITERATURE

Burning Grass was first published in 1962 and like a lot of novels by Cyprian Ekwensi, the plot takes place in the northern part of Nigeria. This is the third novel in our series on works by Cyprian Ekwensi.
Mai Sunsaye is the chief of his Fulani cattle herding settlement called Dokan Toro. He is a doctor to the people, a specialist in making charms and amulets and also has the ability to tell the people their fortunes. He is like a general practitioner, a psychiatrist and a fortune teller all rolled into one. Probably your typical native doctor back in the day.
He is the leader of his village Dokan Toro and although he is widely respected by the villagers, he is engaged in a power struggle with Chief Ardo who wants to be the chief of the settlement. Ardo inflicts Sunsaye with Sokugo, a charm of the Fulani. Sokugo Magic causes men to wander off deserting their families and leaving their previous lives behind. Men suffering from Sokugo are also unable to settle in a place for a few days. If a man suffering from Sokugo refuses to continue his wandering he falls seriously ill.
Sunsaye deserts his family and sets off on an aimless quest. He lies to himself that he’s going in search of a lady that fled with his son Hodio but which he has promised to bring back home to his last son Rikku. With Sunsaye out of town, Ardo is able to run Sunsaye’s family out of Dokan Toro and make himself the leader of the village.
The plot from then on follows Sunsaye on his wanderings through several villages, characters and his eventual cure from Sokugo,reuniting with his family and eventual return to Dokan Toro.
In my junior secondary school days, any student you saw in different places within a short time span and who did not not seem to have a clear purpose to his appearances in different locations was said to be suffering from “Sokugo” the wandering disease. At the time I thought this was something from a Chinua Achebe story. It didn’t even cross my mind that this was from a Cyprian Ekwensi story. I think it is safe to assume that this was part of the senior secondary school literature curriculum because I never came across this book as my literature studies ended in junior secondary school.
It is a fun read but definitely not one of my best Cyprian Ekwensi novels.

http://artsymoments.com/2015/01/10/cyprian-ekwensi-burning-grass/

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This post by Enefaa in the blog brings back memories of my childhood when i discovered Cyprian Ekwensi novels! His books magically transported me to the north even though i had never set foot there at the time! Back then i had a good impression of the place....though it was before i started reading and learning of the negative stuff!

Anyone know why Ekwensi set the plots/stories of many of his novels in the north.....was he born there?

ekwensi was born and brought up in the north.

IGBOSON1:
CYPRIAN EKWENSI: BURNING GRASS

POSTED BY ENEFAA ON JAN 10, 2015 IN LITERATURE

Burning Grass was first published in 1962 and like a lot of novels by Cyprian Ekwensi, the plot takes place in the northern part of Nigeria. This is the third novel in our series on works by Cyprian Ekwensi.
Mai Sunsaye is the chief of his Fulani cattle herding settlement called Dokan Toro. He is a doctor to the people, a specialist in making charms and amulets and also has the ability to tell the people their fortunes. He is like a general practitioner, a psychiatrist and a fortune teller all rolled into one. Probably your typical native doctor back in the day.
He is the leader of his village Dokan Toro and although he is widely respected by the villagers, he is engaged in a power struggle with Chief Ardo who wants to be the chief of the settlement. Ardo inflicts Sunsaye with Sokugo, a charm of the Fulani. Sokugo Magic causes men to wander off deserting their families and leaving their previous lives behind. Men suffering from Sokugo are also unable to settle in a place for a few days. If a man suffering from Sokugo refuses to continue his wandering he falls seriously ill.
Sunsaye deserts his family and sets off on an aimless quest. He lies to himself that he’s going in search of a lady that fled with his son Hodio but which he has promised to bring back home to his last son Rikku. With Sunsaye out of town, Ardo is able to run Sunsaye’s family out of Dokan Toro and make himself the leader of the village.
The plot from then on follows Sunsaye on his wanderings through several villages, characters and his eventual cure from Sokugo,reuniting with his family and eventual return to Dokan Toro.
In my junior secondary school days, any student you saw in different places within a short time span and who did not not seem to have a clear purpose to his appearances in different locations was said to be suffering from “Sokugo” the wandering disease. At the time I thought this was something from a Chinua Achebe story. It didn’t even cross my mind that this was from a Cyprian Ekwensi story. I think it is safe to assume that this was part of the senior secondary school literature curriculum because I never came across this book as my literature studies ended in junior secondary school.
It is a fun read but definitely not one of my best Cyprian Ekwensi novels.

http://artsymoments.com/2015/01/10/cyprian-ekwensi-burning-grass/

****** ******* ********

This post by Enefaa in the blog brings back memories of my childhood when i discovered Cyprian Ekwensi novels! His books magically transported me to the north even though i had never set foot there at the time! Back then i had a good impression of the place....though it was before i started reading and learning of the negative stuff!

Anyone know why Ekwensi set the plots/stories of many of his novels in the north.....was he born there?

Here is a snapshot from Wikipedia:Cyprian Ekwensi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi
Born 26 September 1921
Minna, Niger State
Died 4 November 2007
Enugu, Enugu State
Occupation Pharmacist, broadcaster, author
Genre Short stories and children's fiction
Spouse Eunice Anyiwo
Children Five

Cyprian Ekwensi MFR[1] (26 September 1921 – 4 November 2007) was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.

Contents

1 Biography
1.1 Early life, education and family
1.2 Governmental career
1.3 Literary career
1.4 Death
2 Selected works
3 References
4 External links

Biography
Early life, education and family

Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State. He is a native of Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi local government area, Anambra state of Nigeria. His father was David Anadumaka, a story-teller and elephant hunter.[2]

Ekwensi attended Government College in Ibadan, Oyo State, Achimota College in Ghana, and the School of Forestry, Ibadan, after which he worked for two years as a forestry officer.[1] He also studied pharmacy at Yaba Technical Institute, Lagos School of Pharmacy, and the Chelsea School of Pharmacy of the University of London. He taught at Igbobi College.[1]

Handsomegod:
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I dont know if any other person can imagine it because am already conceiving the idea of building a holiday resort at the summit of these hills, and still retain the flora and fauna like we have at Indaba Motel,Four Ways Johannesburg South Africa.Except in our own case,cable cars can be built to connect the resort to the city centre given that road construction will alter much of the natural habitat.Nature is ours to conquer! It is well+we shall get there..Ndewo nu!

^^^Just add some snow to the hills in the pic, and you could mistake it for the holiday resort of Aspen-Colorado!

centje:
please, where's the link to this?

Been removed. Used to be on the link below. The article was edited yerstaday:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Since nothing really gets removed from the internet,i will be scouring the entire cyberspace to see if the wikipedia article was archieved .

Bishop42:


Been removed. Used to be on the link below. The article was edited yerstaday:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Since nothing really gets removed from the internet,i will be scouring the entire cyberspace to see if the wikipedia article was archieved .

Bishop.I responded to your earlier post.Kindly lead me through on the key question i asked there? You need a lot of enlightenment to sell such a grand idea to interested forumites.You might even have to take it out of this thread and make it more exclusive.The choice is yours.By all means,lead us on.

This is how the whole of Enugu would look like if it had the soil type of owerri or portharcourt.

Bishop42:


Been removed. Used to be on the link below. The article was edited yerstaday:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Since nothing really gets removed from the internet,i will be scouring the entire cyberspace to see if the wikipedia article was archieved .

with the way you interpreted the line makes me think you have the mind of someone who can work in organisation like CIA.
Why don't you sell this secret group idea to Ohaneze...I really don't know why Ohaneze will not have a website, at this age. I think they a have a Facebook page tho'.
...Or their office in Enugu

The unedited wikipedia article archived here:

https://m.facebook.com/notes/binyamine-kurmally/boko-haram/10204184236140851


AND


https://bokoharammustgo./2014/09/03/boko-haram/

Bishop42:
The unedited wikipedia article archived here:

https://m.facebook.com/notes/binyamine-kurmally/boko-haram/10204184236140851


AND


https://bokoharammustgo./2014/09/03/boko-haram/

I will never for one day blame Ojukwu for declaring State of Biafra. I hear some easterners and non-easterners making such blame and 'am like what do you expect the people of that generation to do when there was a systematic plan to eliminate them.

Now a northern group issued this:

"We believe we have the capacity, the willpower to go to any part of Nigeria to protect our Northern brothers in distress ... If it becomes necessary, if we have to use violence, we have to use it to save our people. If it means jihad, we will launch our jihad."

For me, I don't have issue with the northern Group, that's how to protect your brothers.
So, If it takes violence to defend the lives of Biafrans we should be ready to do so in unity, not some people breaking away and blaming...if Biafrans had not fought, killing of easterners would have continued in the north with impunity.

Handsomegod:
Bishop Nwanne.I saw this postulation of urs earlier in this thread or in another thread and it tickled (and still do) my fancy greatly.Sincerely,that is the kind of esoteric force an endangered race like Igbos need to not only penetrate the deepest recesses of the enemy and hostile climes,but to also draw sympathy and friendships from other like minded groups and also build their clout to global reckoning leaving the other pathetic groups behind in their cesspool.A group like the one suggested will provide the much needed synergy seemingly lacking in the Igbo race. It will also be the covert propaganda machinery of the future Igbo nation and the source of resources that drives serious advancements and inventions in key critical ventures (nuclear plants,aviation experiments,warfare bases,industrialization,cultural rennaissance et al).
On the flip side,what measures shall be in place to ensure this esoteric group do not turn sinister and menacing to our collective present and future security as a race? I am pro Bavarian Illuminati (not the contemporary rag tag elements) because i know their history and i can say that the world owe much of their civilization and advancements to those exceptional collection of iconic individuals whose inventions and ideas shape the current blaze we all enjoy today,of course including the internet which is the mother of global link.
I earnestly await your ideas.

NB:You are right about the northern mafia.I will say more about that in due time another day.For now,it is none of my business.

There is nothing to worry about so long as the people runining the group are willing to die for it cause. CIA is a Secret organisation working for American interest...i bet there are loads of other secret group around the world working for the interest of their people. You need selfless people to run this group,people who can lay there lives for the cause.
The question is how and where do we get or groom these kind of people?

The agenda MUST be strickly adhere to which is about Igbo Interest in the South East and around the world. ONLY Selfless people shall participate. Yorubaman can hold a sensitive position in the Group and be granted all the rights and privileges so long as he will defend and protect what the group stand for. MEMBERS MUST BE SELFLESS. Underground organisation can easily be ruined by Self-centered people.

Handsomegod:

I can bet with my last dollar that this picture can pass for a downtown neighborhood in Lisbon! The real estate value in the South East is mind boggling.I wonder when we shall acknowledge the roles of facility management/managers in sustaining and appreciating property value.
It is well with us+we shall get there...

It can pass for a downtown neighbourhood in Lisbon until you focus the camera on the physical infrastructure - roads, sidewalks etc...then you will know it is not Lisbon. The citizenry are playing their part as we can see. It is the governments that are fuuking up.

Bishop42:



There is nothing to worry about so long as the people runining the group are willing to die for it cause. CIA is a Secret organisation working for American interest...i bet there are loads of other secret group around the world working for the interest of their people. You need selfless people to run this group,people who can lay there lives for the cause.
The question is how and where do we get or groom these kind of people?

The agenda MUST be strickly adhere to which is about Igbo Interest in the South East and around the world. ONLY Selfless people shall participate. Yorubaman can hold a sensitive position in the Group and be granted all the rights and privileges so long as he will defend and protect what the group stand for. MEMBERS MUST BE SELFLESS. Underground organisation can easily be ruined by Self-centered people.

Even the CIA has its own share of double agents.However,i totally agree with you that such a collection is highly relevant in current Igbo Agenda.You can pin point some notable forumites and outside of this forum too,we have like minded passionate fellas who can actualize that.It will take time but it is worth it ultimately. It is well.

ROSSIKE:


It can pass for a downtown neighbourhood in Lisbon until you focus the camera on the physical infrastructure - roads, sidewalks etc...then you will know it is not Lisbon. The citizenry are playing their part as we can see. It is the governments that are fuuking up.

I ve not been home for close to a decade but from what i heard,the streets and major avenues in this neighborhood were all tarred and currently in modest shape even if they are not as clinical as Lisbons'. By the way, who cares about Lisbon or Porte Algre sef?!! Fact was that we have created a scenery that harbor immense real estate and tourism potentials that can be patterned according to our perspectives and needs! Imagine if Oakland Amusement park was built on these hills?! #Uwa view#

I want Enugu to look like this or better, even then we shouldn't be satisfied:

ezeagu:
I want Enugu to look like this or better, even then we shouldn't be satisfied:

lol.

ezeagu:
I want Enugu to look like this or better, even then we shouldn't be satisfied:

Lagos, Abuja and Port harcourt are closer.

abagoro:


Lagos, Abuja and Port harcourt are closer.

I actually think Enugu and Abuja stand a better chance than Lagos and PH. Its hard for commercial cities in Nigeria to achieve the cleanliness and serenity in the picture. All Enugu needs is a boulevard with very high rise residential building and a marked road with trees adorning the side of the road.

042 obodo oyibo!!! Representing Achara Layout.

Happier to be eating abacha at Owerri Rd Asata than some crap served up by Whataburger on Westheimer Rd H-town. Sweet home.

Thanks to the poster of those pictures because people were on this thread glorifying mediocre city planning.

Afam4eva:

I actually think Enugu and Abuja stand a better chance than Lagos and PH. Its hard for commercial cities in Nigeria to achieve the cleanliness and serenity in the picture. All Enugu needs is a boulevard with very high rise residential building and a marked road with trees adorning the side of the road.

Every city is clean and dirty. Its just a matter of ratio. Lagos has a lot of real city like buildings followed by Abuja and then Port harcourt. Enugu is more or less residential and Igbotic buildings. That has always been an argument of mine. Igbos need to start building those solid looking houses so that we can at least jave a street with solid office block looking houses and not the typical 3, 4 or 5 storey block of flats.

abagoro:
Every city is clean and dirty. Its just a matter of ratio. Lagos has a lot of real city like buildings followed by Abuja and then Port harcourt. Enugu is more or less residential and Igbotic buildings. That has always been an argument of mine. Igbos need to start building those solid looking houses so that we can at least jave a street with solid office block looking houses and not the typical 3, 4 or 5 storey block of flats.

I really don't know why you rate PH so high. Ph was once a garden city but not anymore. Recently, I compared Ph and Enugu in terms of size, the difference is marginal in favour of Ph. And Ph doesn't have the pattern of house zoning you find in Enugu. In Ph what you see are disordered mixture of bungalow, duplex, storey building...even plenty of your so called igbotic building.
You can't find this type of layout in Ph, developed by individuals...the houses are almost at the same level.


Enugu

The only place you can find such pattern in PH are in very few government layout, developed by government. Am quite certain you don't know Enugu very well, you can't erect such storey houses in places like trans Ekulu, or erect duplex in Achara layout, that's the zoning pattern in Enugu, you can't find in Ph. Ph is Economical more advanced than Enugu, more congested and more populated, but these factors coupled with poor planning made Ph chaotic and it eventually lost its garden city theme.


Now to your usually 'igbotic building' and 'solid office block looking houses' as you put it ...I also advocate for such houses you desire, but there are factors that that bring about such houses or make developers go for lower storey houses with corrugated roofing sheets...on several occasions I discussed with my cousin, an architect, he will always tell me that such style of roofing you usually describe is very costly to maintain. Secondly, considering scarcity of water in most part of the east especially Enugu, the need to collect rain water requires such roof. Thirdly, taking the storey building to 16-20 levels will require elevators, to be powered and maintained by how many residents, how may people can afford it. I think developers will begin to make such investment for middle class when we have stable power, otherwise such buildings in nigeria are mainly for bussiness and government purposes. Fourthly, most of those buildings you see in Lagos, and Abuja are government houses or private companies, don't tell me you want to similar architectural design of the new Enugu secretariat or that of Golden Royale replicated in every part of Enugu Fiftly, have you taken a look at other cities, big Countries like France has cities with similar pattern...


Marseille, France

london has similar building pattern...


North London

You probably don't understand Urban planning, and how cities evolve. Those houses you're seeing will either be redesigned or destroyed to build a more contemporary architecture as the city evovle...below is beginning part of Ogui Road Enugu, this area was once lined by archaic low houses with brown roofings, some can still be found there. But at a rapid rate, these houses are being replaced by more modern houses, in future it's probably skyscrapers that will replace these ones being built now...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2388147_20150507160415_jpege3e8f72339db735e5b19a4f1917572b9

Here's a new house replacing those low houses, flanking the house under construction are those old houses,...that's the evolution...and it's a gradual process. As the economy improves so will our architecture and other aspects of our cities.

[img]http://4.bp..com/-3UtU4OQ_bqw/VUuUcnDadVI/AAAAAAAACWU/dMJdt3ctnqM/s640/20150507_160133.jpg[/img]

centje:


I really don't know why you rate PH so high. Ph was once a garden city but not anymore. Recently, I compared Ph and Enugu in terms of size, the difference is marginal in favour of Ph. And Ph doesn't have the pattern of house zoning you find in Enugu. In Ph what you see are disordered mixture of bungalow, duplex, storey building...even plenty of your so called igbotic building.
You can't find this type of layout in Ph, developed by individuals...the houses are almost at the same level.


Enugu

The only place you can find such pattern in PH are in very few government layout, developed by government. Am quite certain you don't know Enugu very well, you can't erect such storey houses in places like trans Ekulu, or erect duplex in Achara layout, that's the zoning pattern in Enugu, you can't find in Ph. Ph is Economical more advanced than Enugu, more congested and more populated, but these factors coupled with poor planning made Ph chaotic and it eventually lost its garden city theme.


Now to your usually 'igbotic building' and 'solid office block looking houses' as you put it ...I also advocate for such houses you desire, but there are factors that that bring about such houses or make developers go for lower storey houses with corrugated roofing sheets...on several occasions I discussed with my cousin, an architect, he will always tell me that such style of roofing you usually describe is very costly to maintain. Secondly, considering scarcity of water in most part of the east especially Enugu, the need to collect rain water requires such roof. Thirdly, taking the storey building to 16-20 levels will require elevators, to be powered and maintained by how many residents, how may people can afford it. I think developers will begin to make such investment for middle class when we have stable power, otherwise such buildings in nigeria are mainly for bussiness and government purposes. Fourthly, most of those buildings you see in Lagos, and Abuja are government houses or private companies, don't tell me you want to similar architectural design of the new Enugu secretariat or that of Golden Royale replicated in every part of Enugu Fiftly, have you taken a look at other cities, big Countries like France has cities with similar pattern...


Marseille, France

london has similar building pattern...


North London

You probably don't understand Urban planning, and how cities evolve. Those houses you're seeing will either be redesigned or destroyed to build a more contemporary architecture as the city evovle...below is beginning part of Ogui Road Enugu, this area was once lined by archaic low houses with brown roofings, some can still be found there. But at a rapid rate, these houses are being replaced by more modern houses, in future it's probably skyscrapers that will replace these ones being built now...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2388147_20150507160415_jpege3e8f72339db735e5b19a4f1917572b9

Here's a new house replacing those low houses, flanking the house under construction are those old houses,...that's the evolution...and it's a gradual process. As the economy improves so will our architecture and other aspects of our cities.

[img]http://4.bp..com/-3UtU4OQ_bqw/VUuUcnDadVI/AAAAAAAACWU/dMJdt3ctnqM/s640/20150507_160133.jpg[/img]

My brother, I always enjoy your highly cerebral write ups.
Please don't mind abagworo or abagoro whatever he calls himself.

The so called city in the picture they were bragging about was Cairo, Egypt. Egypt and Lebanon are the only two Arab countries that build many storey building resembling what Abagoro calls "igbotic" buildings. These countries have high populations concentrated only in Cairo and Beirut.

In Nigeria, we want the American pattern of uniform development where you must not go to only Washington DC or New York to see live-able cities. There are great cities in every state in USA. In the same vein we'd like to have great cities in every state of Nigeria. Not just only Lagos and Abuja.

When I said that abagworo is evil, demonic, envious, frustrated and cancerous you guys didn't believe me.

Until abagworo is caught and stoned to death this will not stop. This is why I usually have problem with that old jobless hag. Whenever I sight that guy is as though I have sighted faeces. I detest that old dirty wanderer with utmost sincerity.

How can one condemn and call 3-4-5 residential buildings bad whereas PH he is talking about is at least 85% shanties, filled with the Ikwerre-type dirty low bungalows.

Every corner of PH has an element of disgusting rural outlook except maybe old GRA and new GRA. FACT!

The 3-4-5 residential blocks as seen in Onitsha and Enugu remains the best and most majestic low and middle class housing in Nigeria today if you are a traveller that have seen other parts of Nigeria. The comparison is like night and day.

I have some pictures of most neighbourhoods in PH, will share it soon on the imo thread to embarrass that I.dI.ot.

If you ask me, most of those skyscrapers in Lagos and abuja are government buildings and headquarters of corporate companies and not residential buildings.
And with the location of most headquarters in Lagos and abuja, these two cities have more skyscrapers than most Nigerian cities.
But when it comes to residential buildings, SE has the best concentration of nice neighborhoods than any geopolitical zone, including the so called igbotic houses.
What a terminology

Enugu has an enviable development pattern and I think it was a policy from the old eastern region. Centje capped my points with his brilliant arguments but I will walk around town later this weekend to show areal views of some parts of Enugu.

The kind of construction fever that has gripped Enugu has never been seen before, I am building two 3 storey buildings started this month in two parts of Enugu that allows high rises, Nike and Achara layout. Bungalows and duplexes are for the very rich at GRA and Independence layout while our normal shanty towns are at Abakpa, and other hilly settlements.

I am also excited about the future prospects for Enugu housing, with the centenary city coming up with superb layouts comparable to what you see in luxury destinations in the world. The future is surely bright.

I am sure that very soon, we are going to start higher rising buildings with lifts, good parking and good arrangement for water and safety. Its not impossible to have some 30 storey residential blocks inside Enugu. That is what I want to see in the coming years, of course it will be private sector driven, just like everything in this city.

Sometimes abagworo talks like a mischievous person..expecting individuals to build skyscrapers when it is well known that it is govt and companies that do so...even if single individuals decides to embark on building skyscrapers what about the running and maintenance of the buildings?

asha80:
Sometimes abagworo talks like a mischievous person..expecting individuals to build skyscrapers when it is well known that it is govt and companies that do so...even if single individuals decides to embark on building skyscrapers what about the running and maintenance of the buildings?

I for one, cannot live beyond the 4th floor