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Ishilove:
If I Was secretary, you were the contributing editor

Ishilove:
My dear, Oga naptu2 is Generation A

Ishilove:
My dear, I heard you were among those who wrote the bible

Ishilove:
Oh okay, thanks. It's been over 20 years I read the book so I've gotten the characters mixed up

OsoDupe:
who is kokoro please? I read this book countless times.

naptu2:
Kokoro was a very famous blind musician. He used to busk on Igbosere Road and Broad Street (at least, those were the two places that I saw him everyday). He played the tambourine (just like Akin in the novel).

I was always amazed by the fact that he knew the streets so well that he could walk up and down them unaccompanied. I saw him on those streets everyday and he never had an accident (at least not to my knowledge).

I think it was in the 1990s that PMAN (finally) decided to do something for him, but unfortunately he died soon after that.

There's a statue of him at the new Tinubu Square fountain.

naptu2:
Aha! We are in the information age! There's now a Wikipedia article about Kokoro. It's not very detailed, but it gives you an idea of who he was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokoro_(musician)

naptu2:
O wow! Just wow!

I used to see him in traffic on Igbosere Road and Broad Street virtually every day between 1982 and 1989 and now I can see him perform again on Youtube.

The first video is a documentary about him. The second video is of his performance at Island Club in 2007 (probably his last public performance before his death). He was introduced by King Sunny Ade.

Below the videos is a picture of his statue beside the new fountain at Tinubu Square.

Kokoro


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mVaEz0SgA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCc5C7AfAJ4


https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13668941_1758216801102286_2215942961837349968_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9

https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-0/cp0/e15/q65/p240x240/36177_477572592789_7201155_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=056944121da127bdfea98882f0350bb0&oe=582AAD0B&__gda__=1478955333_8fcddbe6c669d7f352867fb8d16636a7

Ishilove:
Who is Kokoro?

armadeo:
Wait up. This was based on a true story?

Now I am completely awed.

I remember the joy with which he reunited with his fellow players. How angry he was because the madam drove them away. Lol.

Epic tale.

Omagzee:
waoo.... interesting! ThankGod for N. L, i lacked the slightest idea that the story of Akin was inspired by a real life personality. Thanks for the insight.

Ishilove:
Emmm, eskiz sir, how old are you?

armadeo:
I wonder where I read these books. I also read this one and loved it.

Others not mentioned so far

There's tgis book about two guys who rob thier parents and run to lagos. They become business men but one dies in an accident driving a trailer and the other goes blind when his windscreen shatters. Can't remember the name.

Usman terror of the north and the deadly game of Shanshi

This story about an orphan who's mother dies and is taken in by a trader selling statues. While thinking of how to raise money the trader says 30naira to a couple of whites and they but the statues making her rich.

Agbo the lucky boy whose parents were rich.

Pacesetters bloodbath at lobster close.

All 21 famous five novels
The secret seven

Gwendoline lacy Mary ( I have no idea what that book is about but I read it all)


wow those days sha

Ishilove:
Who is Kokoro?

armadeo:
Wait up. This was based on a true story?

Now I am completely awed.

I remember the joy with which he reunited with his fellow players. How angry he was because the madam drove them away. Lol.

Epic tale.

armadeo:
Wait up. This was based on a true story?

Now I am completely awed.

I remember the joy with which he reunited with his fellow players. How angry he was because the madam drove them away. Lol.

Epic tale.

naptu2:
Kokoro was a very famous blind musician. He used to busk on Igbosere Road and Broad Street (at least, those were the two places that I saw him everyday). He played the tambourine (just like Akin in the novel).

I was always amazed by the fact that he knew the streets so well that he could walk up and down them unaccompanied. I saw him on those streets everyday and he never had an accident (at least not to my knowledge).

I think it was in the 1990s that PMAN (finally) decided to do something for him, but unfortunately he died soon after that.

There's a statue of him at the new Tinubu Square fountain.

Ishilove:
Then you haven't read Great Ponds by Elechi Amadi

Ishilove:
I know it, but I never read it.