Feeling Uninspired

I can't think of anything to draw. I just keep drawing the same stupid heads and faces. I'm also scared to draw more challenging stuff like hands and backgrounds.

I am such a coward.

And I am so lazy. I don't want to do any of my practice exercises either.

Please somebody, tell me what to draw?

Drowning in Unfinished Art Work (NSFW)

Just found yet ANOTHER unfinished piece hiding somewhere on my computer.

I'll get round to finishing it eventually. I just don't have the strength right now.

New Site Design and Colour Blog Awards

I was bored with the look of my blog so I made a new background for myself featuring most of the Emekas.

See if you can figure out which ones I left out.

As a reminder, if you won an award in the Nigerian Blog Awards and you'd like to have it in colour, let me know what award you won and the name of your blog so I can start converting your award to colour.

Here's to a good week for everyone. ^_^

Oh, and I drew a pink baby elephant:

Update: So I decided against the background in the end.

An Update on the ABSU Rape Case

Apparently the victim of the ABSU rape case has been found and is receiving some sort of counseling or therapy.

This is no doubt utterly wonderful news. I hope that she will benefit immensely from therapy and will heal her psychological wounds.

Also, the police who initially joined the Abia state government to deny the veracity of the case are now investigating after being ordered to do so by the National Assembly. Also good news.

As far as not so good news goes, a few online news outlets are still reporting the full names that Baba Jide Salu posted in this post as rapists or rape suspects even though they have received emails stating otherwise and in spite of the fact that as we now know, the information from Baba Jide Salu's blog post was wrong. I originally tweeted this blog post but hopefully most of you have seen my tweets saying that this information is incorrect since I found out that the information in his post was wrong.

I emailed Baba Jide Salu asking him to take down his posts since in spite of efforts to correct the spread of wrong information and emails to sites who were hosting articles about it, more news sites (such as Sahara Reporters) continued to quote his posts and contribute to the spread of wrong information.

At first he replied me and refused to take them down but as of yesterday evening it appears he has had a change of heart and has now password protected these posts and stated that he is no longer blogging about the case for personal reasons.

The police have also made some arrests regarding the case and from what some online news articles are saying, they arrested some of the people mentioned online/on Twitter. I have mixed feelings about this. While it is good that the police is now working on the case, I don't think that as police (as opposed to regular members of society) they should just arrest people based off what they saw on the Internet. At the very most, the information posted on the Internet should be considered as leads to the police so they should question such people to find out if they have or know any information that may be pertinent to the case, but from what little I understand about police procedure, arrests are only supposed made when there is some sort of supporting on-ground evidence that a person/suspect is tied to a case.

That being said, I think the single most important factor is that the victim has been found. This is significant because since the rape was not of the sudden, quick variety, but rather went on for a prolonged period of time, the victim had more than enough time to study the faces of her attackers and should be able to (when she is ready) point out to the police directly who did or did not attack her.

If you have been following the case and would like to read further on it, the following bloggers have good posts concerning the ABSU rape case:

Linda Ikeji - Five Boys Gang Rape Student

Black Looks - Tabloid Bloggers Online Vigilantes and Sexual Violence

Ginger - What Rape Culture Looks Like

Looking Glass of an Immigrant - Enough is Enough, Time to Cut at the Roots of Violence Against Women and Should We also Not be Scared to Blame Rape Victims?

Bella Naija - The Real Shame of Rape and A Country United Against a Common Enemy? Discussions on the ABSU Rape Continue

Bob-Ij - No Means No: Real Men Don't Rape

Aloofar - With love from my toto

Lady Ngo - Hope

Stuff Nigerians Love/Hate - The Nigerian Governor's Guide to Handling Rape Cases

Naija Lines - On Rape and Fish Them Out Now

Inyanmu's El Dorado - Please Don't Blame Me

Half and Half - The Trouble with Technology

and many more...

OkShorty in this post is offering a reward for information about the case. Though the victim has been identified and arrests have been made, the case is not over. Those arrested might not necessarily be guilty or the actual perpetrators and at least two of the perpetrators are still out there. Healing from rape is a delicate thing and chances are it will take a while. If in the mean time you have any information that might be of help, please inform the police and also let OkShorty and other involved NGOs like Enough is Enough Nigeria know too.

There is also a March/Walk against Rape and Violence against Women on October 5 in Lagos (Abia State Liason Office), Abuja (Eagle Square) and of course, Abia (Okpara Square) organised by Enough is Enough (EIE) Nigeria, Project Alert and a number of other organisations.

If you are able to attend the walks please go and show your support for the ABSU victim as well as victims of rape everywhere, reported, and especially unreported.

Thank you to everyone who helped to get the authorities to listen and to do something. Thank you to everyone who tweeted and blogged and wrote about it. But most of all thank you to all the individuals and NGOs on ground in Nigeria who worked and are still working tirelessly to assist the victim and the police and to get national attention for this case so that it would not continue to be ignored. I think that as Nigerians we came together to help another Nigerian who was downtrodden so maybe as a country we're not so bad after all.

Change.org has a petition with over 73,000 signatures (at last count) for the ABSU case so if you're inclined, please sign it

Apology to Ifeanyi Ogu Justin

The day before yesterday, I retweeted a blog post that wrongly misidentified "Ifeanyi Justin Ogu" as one of the suspects in the #ABSU rape case. This then caused a lot of retweets that he was a suspected rapist.

This was wrong. The post I tweeted from had wrong information and once I found out I deleted my tweets and asked retweeters to not retweet his name or photo.

Please do not retweet his name or photo as a suspect in the case. He was actually on a list of people who might be able to provide helpful information about the case. This is how I suspect he was mixed up with the people who were being suspected OF the ABSU crime.

My deepest apologies to Mr. Ogu because my tweets helped to spread this wrong information.

Again, Mr. Ogu is NOT a suspect in the ABSU case and was originally on a list of people who might be able to HELP the case.

Why isn't She Screaming? And other Horrors of the ABSU Rape Case

Why isn't She Screaming?

Yesterday, amid trying to get word out about the ABSU rape case, I couldn't help but notice some exceptionally ignorant and horrendous reactions to it by those who had seen the video and those who hadn't alike.

A lot of people (especially women) seemed to conclude that because the victim wasn't screaming and because at some point in the video she said to her attackers "Am I not cooperating?" that it wasn't rape and that she must have been enjoying it.

but the worst:

I was enraged and disgusted because I hear this kind of response every time someone is raped in Nigeria and I really need people to know and understand that everyone reacts differently to trauma and so everyone reacts differently if they are raped and just because a person does not display the response you were expecting does not mean that they are not just as traumatised.

First, if you are expecting a rape victim to scream, then the rapist is expecting her to scream too and chances are he has a back up plan for that which usually involves threatening to kill the victim if she screams or resists.

Rape is not a mutually agreed upon contract where both parties can expect a simple rape and be done. As far as the victim is concerned, anything can happen and if the attacker has already gone so far as to rape or attempt to rape her, he is capable of anything and everything and then it becomes a fight to preserve your life in which you will do anything to escape the situation alive. Sometimes if it means bargaining with the rapist then that's what you need to do to survive.

Not all rape is easily identifiable. Sometimes rape involves the victim bargaining with the rapist to exchange the demanded sex act for another less deplorable one if the victim feels she has no chance of escape.

I watched that video, and those men THREATENED to keep her in that room for TWO DAYS if she didn't "co-operate".  Later in the video, she can be heard asking one of the rapists "Am I not cooperating?".

Some horrible people are interpreting this as a sign that she was enjoying it, whereas those who know better will immediately recognise that she was in survival mode, trying to do anything that might appease the rapists in order to prevent them from escalating.

You might think rape is a simple matter of forced sex but it's not. A rape can very quickly result in you losing your life. And women are not only raped by means of direct sex. Sometimes rapists escalate and rape women with dangerous objects like bottles, guns, and poles. Sometimes, if a victim does anything that angers the rapist (like SCREAMING, resisting, fighting, struggling, or refusing to "cooperate"), she can be killed.

It is the height of inhumanity to ask "why isn't she screaming?" as if you need her screams in order to understand that she was raped.

But I am not surprised. It is because of people who ask questions like this that most rape victims in Nigeria would rather die than speak up.

The ABSU Vice Chancellor and The Governor of Abia State

It seemed like there was a glimmer of hope when we got the attention of the Minister of Youth Affairs and he contacted the ABSU Vice Chancellor and the governor, but I woke up this morning to the news that not only did the ABSU Vice Chancellor deny that any such thing had taken place, but the Governor of Abia State said the rape was staged by his political detractors to harm his political career!

I think these two men should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

And as for the Governor of Abia State, if his political career was in danger before, it is definitely over now. Nigerians did not vote you into office to turn a blind eye when people in your state and jurisdiction are being brutalised.

You did not become a governor to serve your own interests, you were elected governor to serve the people of Abia state and you are doing absolutely nothing.

Rape Jokes

I think the only thing that might even be worse were the rape jokes people were making on Twitter. For the whole of yesterday, the utterly despicable hashtag #RapeHerIf was trending on Twitter in Nigeria.

Really Nigeria? Really? How could you sink so low?

I am calling a Human Flesh Search

UPDATE: I have seen the video and the names in the video are: UCHENNA , WISDOM, ZAKI, CHISOM, and IFEANYI / UGBAANYI !


If you are an ABSU student and you know these five people or you know at least two people on this list who are known associates, please confirm and post information!


REGARDING THE VIDEO:
I have a ten minute clip of the video on my laptop. I haven't been able to get the full video but apparently the full video is about an hour.

I tried to clean it up with video enhancement software but the portion of the video that I have doesn't really have any good shots of the men's faces and only of the victim's. However, I watched the video about four times over with full volume and headphones and even closed my eyes in order to focus on the sound. They were speaking English and Igbo but mostly Igbo. I speak both and I clearly heard the men referring to each other as they were taking turns and they used the following names to address each other: Wisdom (I specifically heard them say "Wisdom done dey talk now"), Chisom, Zaki (I specifically heard one of the men say "Do you know who Zaki is?" to the victim, Uchenna (I specifically heard the victim beg "Uchenna" to stop as he was raping her), and Ifeanyi or Ugbaanyi (the last name was not very clear but it most definitely is one of the two although I think it was Ugbaanyi).

Also, I specifically heard one of the men say he was a Law student and one of them said he had a car. They threatened the victim and said they would keep her in the room for two days if she kept protesting. I heard that clearly.

And everything I saw in that video was rape.

FURTHER UPDATE: It appears the victim might not a student at ABSU but the rapists are. Also,  I got all the names by directly watching the video and listening. They were speaking Igbo and English. There is a chance that ONE of the names might be the victim's name (because most Igbo names are Unisex).

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If ever Nigeria needed a Human Flesh Search, now is the time and I am calling for one. A Human Flesh Search  is an Internet based practice that originated in China where unknown individuals who are captured doing something terrible on video or in a photo are identified and exposed with all their personal details (including Full names, addresses, work places, telephone numbers, email addresses, etc) posted on the Internet for all to see.

I am calling one, so please listen, and tell everyone you know, because we need a Human Flesh Search right now.

Yesterday I saw one of the most horrible things I have ever seen in my life. A young lady was gang raped and brutalised by five men from Abia State University for the "crime" of insulting one of them. Never mind that freedom of speech is supposed to be a basic right, never mind that. If a man thinks that in an argument or in a fight, RAPE is one of the weapons available to him in his arsenal then something is VERY VERY WRONG.

My heart absolutely broke for her. It broke because I know exactly how she feels, because nobody should invade another human being's body that way. Rape is one of the worst things a person can experience, and all the while I saw it my heart was in my mouth and I felt ill and shaky because I have been there and I know what it's like to say to a man "No!" and then have him slap you and pin you down. I know what it feels like to struggle and fight with all your might until all the energy you have leaves you at the moment when you need it the most and know inside that there is nothing you can do.

I know exactly what she went through because I also have seen their smiling hungry faces, waiting to take turns as if the person lying there broken is not human like them. I also know the shame and the fear and the complete helplessness that comes from knowing that the police will do nothing, or might even accuse you of being a prostitute, that the people around you will tell you to forget all about it and pretend it didn't happen. That others that find out will cluck their tongues and speculate about all the ways you could have "invited" the rape. That the mountain of shame your people heap on you will still be less than the glory they will allow the rapists enjoy. I have been there and so I hurt for her. At least my rapists wore condoms at my insistence, I don't think hers did.

These men not only raped her, they filmed it and then spread it. That should tell you that they believed with a reasonable degree of certainty that they would not be punished for what they did. And I am not surprised that they hold this belief. We live in a country where men are raised to believe they are princes and that somehow women belong to them. Many Nigerian men believe that the sexuality of any woman on the street belongs to them and that they have the right to inquire and demand of our sexuality by shaming any woman who is not a virgin or forcefully using her body against her will. This is because many Nigerian men have been told from day one that they have power and that they have power not only over themselves but over Nigerian women and that respect does not have to be earned but is their right.

And so, when this young woman insulted one of those men for whatever reason, he felt he could exercise his power and put her in her place by raping her.

I am not going to lie. For a long time I hated Nigerian men. I know that not all of them are like that, but more than enough are. A few weeks ago, while watching a long run of historical Korean dramas, Suliph and I concluded that wherever there was a man grossly abusing power, there were always two stupid women laughing and giggling with him. You know those two stupid women? Nigeria is full of them. Every time a woman is raped or violated or abused by a man in Nigeria, there are always at least two stupid women that find a way no matter how depraved to blame it on the victim. And not surprisingly, a lot of them have shown themselves ever since news of this broke. So maybe not surprisingly, I hate some Nigerian women too. Is being in the good graces of a man more important than defending your fellow women? Is it? How do you feel?

This is what an anonymous commenter on the rape post said:

You should be ashamed. Anyone who slut shames a rape victim or says it was her fault needs to go play in traffic. NO MATTER what happens, rape is a choice. You can choose to rape the person, or you can walk away. A human being walks away, a beastly creature from the depths of hell does what these men did.

This is what some people on Twitter said:

This is the kind of mindless thing that only someone who has never been raped would say.

Screaming saps your energy very quickly . 

After you scream for a while you realise it is better to save that energy to fight. 

And then when you've fought as bitterly as you can and it still isn't enough, you just go very quiet.

The only way to cope with being raped is to pretend you aren't there.

You pretend this isn't you. 

You can actually see yourself being raped but it looks like you're looking at someone else from very far away.

The real you just floats away and the men are left raping a shell.

It's the only way because if you let yourself be present be conscious they won't have to kill you, you'll die by yourself.

This poor girl is probably feeling scared, and isolated and ashamed and like her life is permanently over. I can imagine the humiliation she feels because when I was raped a video was made and pictures were taken and for years I compulsively combed the amateur section of porn sites because I was terrified they would put it on the Internet. It never happened, but I've decided that even if it ever does show up, I am not going to be ashamed or cowed because I'm not the animal, they are. I know this girl will probably never read this directly but if in the off chance you are reading this and you know someone who knows her, tell her that I said not to be ashamed and that I stand with her and that for her I have said publicly that I was a victim too and she is not alone.

I have been there, and as terrible as it is while it's happening, afterwards is just as devastating. Rape is uniquely horrible because you can ransack a person's house and when they come back and find it if they feel particularly violated they can always find a new house, but you cannot climb out of your body and leave it there on the floor and walk away and believe me that is what every rape victim just wants to do. You have to live every day with a body that feels like it is no longer yours and know that you are unable to escape. I know what it feels like to hate yourself intensely, to wish you could run away from yourself and never come back. I attempted suicide twice and the second time got me locked in the mental health ward under a 72 hour hold, so I know.

Those men are lower than animals and are a permanent source of shame to every Nigerian, and really every decent human being alive. So, I am calling a Human Flesh Search for the rapists in Abia State University.

Find any information you can about these men and post it on the Internet, their faces, their phone numbers, their addresses, what they are studying, their dormitory room number, their shoe size, their state and village of origin, whatever you can find until we have a composite database of information about these men.

The Nigerian police might not do anything, but at least we can divert as much shame as possible from the victim to the rapists. If nothing else happens, then at least EVERYONE in Nigeria and on the Internet MUST know that these men are rapists. If you know their phone numbers post them online so that they can be harassed morning and night. Find their pictures and blow them up and paper the walls of the city you live in. Send me their pictures and I will personally blow them up and post as many as I can, but we MUST find these beasts because no rape victim should have to live in fear and shame, all they should be is ANGRY.

Send anything you can find on these animals to sugabelly@gmail.com and I will gladly repost here.  I've purchased video enhancement software and I have asked Linda Ikeji to send me the video, and as distasteful as watching that video might be, if I can use the software to get clearer images of the men's faces from the video to post online, then it will definitely be worth it.

Please help. Don't just read this and then move onto something else. You have no idea how profound the feeling of helplessness and powerlessness is when you've been raped. Please spend some of your precious time trying to find out something about these men and post it online. If anything is worth it, this is. Please try. Facebook photos, addresses, numbers, ANYTHING. If you are on the Abia University campus and you can get a cellphone photo of ANY of the men that were involved to circulate on BBM please do it. Post any information that you think might help other people identify them. Anything at all. Nicknames, second names, aliases, distinctive characteristics, tattoos, piercings, ANYTHING AT ALL.

Do it for all the Nigerian women that have been raped who are dying in silence in our country.  Do it to let this girl know that there are hundreds if not thousands of people out there who support her and will not allow others to shame her. Do it so she can hold her head high.

Thank you in advance to everyone who finds something.

The 10 People You Meet in Nigeria - Part 2

Who are the people in your neighbourhood? If you live in Nigeria, you probably run into all sorts of characters on a daily basis. Of course, where you live and what your social status is influence the type of crowd you run with, but regardless of where you've been and who you are, if you live or are in Nigeria, sooner or later, you will run into all of the following people.

2. The Sisi Eko ( owambiferous partigoa)

General Characteristics: The de-facto social butterfly of Nigeria, the Sisi Eko is a staple at all the hottest parties and social functions in the country. She seems to know everyone and everyone certainly knows her (or at least they know of her). Uses her endless connections and interminably deep pockets to score an invite to every event worth mentioning, and is heavily armed with an extensive wardrobe full of designer pieces to look the part. Is usually an Ajebota, but might also be an Ajepako with an Alhaji and a Superstar Tailor in the background. Lucky Sisi Ekos have no job to speak of and might occasionally moonlight as stylists or bridesmaids at a million weddings, but most hold down a well paying day job to bankroll their glamourous lives.

Natural Habitat: Any and all Polo Clubs, Victoria lsland and Lekki Phase One (in Lagos), Asokoro and Maitama (in Abuja); Exclusive clubs, Award shows, Fashion shows, Boutique Launches, and the pages of ThisDay Style

Notable Habits: Extensive use of Ankara, and a debilitating addiction to Blackberries, Louis Vuitton bags, and rich or famous boyfriends.

Related to: The Alhaji, The Faded Glory Monarch, and The Aristo.

Natural Enemies: The Johnny Just Come, and The Ajepako Pastor.

In Real Life:

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Chalya Shagaya

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Eku Edewor

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Funke Fowler

Nike Oshinowo

To Be Continued..................

Get your Award in Colour

This is for everyone who won an award in the Nigerian Blog Awards.

I'm going to start exchanging the black and white award badges for more compact coloured ones so if you won an award please leaveyour name/blogname in the comments along with which award(s) you won so I can give you a coloured award badge.

Don't Be Afraid to Be Anti-Heterosexual

This post is in response to Kitkat's original post titled "Don't be Scared to be Anti-Gay" which I strongly suspect she wrote in response to Adura Ojo's post on Naijalines. It is also in accompaniment to Sting's Post and Prism of an Immigrant's Post, and I suggest that you read all three before reading mine.

KitKat's post was ignorant and offensive without a doubt, but the real gold comes from the comments. Right now, a portion of the Nigerian blogosphere is arguing back and forth over homosexuality and the centre of it all is the post that KitKat wrote in which she claims that homosexuality is a sin and she feels pressured to accept homosexuality while in America because of fear of being stigmatised as a bigot by the general pro-gay atmosphere here.

While this is a valid concern and I do in fact believe that Kitkat's experience is very true and that there must be some anti-gay individuals who feel compelled to hold their tongues for fear of being called out, there is something that stands out to me in all of this that I simply must know.

Assuming that homosexuality is a sin;

Why is it, that OF ALL the possible sins that your classmates or school mates could have been committing at any given moment (such as lying, stealing, fornication, fraud, adultery, etc), homosexuality is the only one that you feel the crushing need to jump up and speak out against?

Because it's not as if you walked into class and announced "Please anybody who has committed sin today by lying or stealing kindly stay back ten feet from me." yet you ignore all other sins and home in on homosexuality as if the others are somehow less sinful.

Why is it, that OF ALL the possible sins that the average Nigerian could be committing at any given moment on a random Nigerian street, homosexuality is the only one that other Nigerians feel the need to leave whatever they are doing and expend their precious energy to condemn and persecute?

It's not as if Nigerians are not committing other equally sinful sins that might even be worse because unlike homosexuality (which only concerns the individual and perhaps whoever their partner is), they affect other innocent people ( e.g. STEALING - all the BILLIONS of Naira that various Nigerians in power and in government offices have STOLEN from the Nigerian populace that has detrimentally affected the ENTIRE NATION by reducing the quality of our education, denying Nigerians access to uninterrupted electricity, safe roads, clean water, and a host of other things that we should as a society have by all rights but might never because of the sin of THEFT)

So please tell me why.

Because I KNOW that you do NOT write blog posts about how you saw a Man and a Woman kissing one day and you are concerned and distressed that they are committing fornication.

I KNOW that the average Nigerian blogger DOES NOT write blog posts speculating about what activities men and women or boys and girls walking on the street might be doing with each other behind closed doors, yet all these Nigerian bloggers and Nigerian commentors are coming out of the woodwork to deliver their judgment on homosexuals as if they've done nothing all their lives but sit on a mountain top praying and fasting for fate of the world.

It is very clear that if homosexuality is indeed a sin, it is certainly receiving special attention that is not accorded to other sins.

Dear Bloggers and Blog-Readers of Nigeria, if you did not know before, this is called DISCRIMINATION.

If you don't feel the pressing need to speak out against people who ask for dubs during exams or people who borrow five dollars and never pay it back (THEFT) or people who ask their smart friend to do their homework for them (FRAUD) or your friend and her boyfriend (FORNICATION) or your daddy and his second wife and two mistresses (ADULTERY) or your friend who is saving two thousand dollars for a Louis Vuitton bag (AVARICE) when she could have used that money to help the poor, then I do not see why you are suddenly feeling an irresistible desire to express your condemnation of homosexuals.

I really need to know why all of you who are jumping up and down because suddenly you have remembered that homosexuality is a sin always develop amnesia when you see men and women kissing.

The long and short of it is, homosexuality is an EASY target. Because homosexuals are in the minority, and the majority of heterosexuals will never experience homosexual attraction, it offers a unique opportunity to sit on a pedestal and point a finger of judgment and condemnation but never have one pointed back at you because well ... unlike other sins (lying, cheating, etc).... you haven't done it. If you are completely heterosexual, homosexuality is something that you have never done and so there is no fear that your own shortcomings might be held up to you when you pull out your cloak of self-righteousness.

Just as Right Handers are in the majority and once persecuted the Left Handed minority of humans because they would never experience Left Handedness, so too are holier-than-thou heterosexuals happy to persecute homosexuals because they know that it is the ONE thing where they can be absolutely sure that they will never be in that situation and have to suffer the persecution they so easily dole out.

In case you didn't see it:

Pretending as if gay people all over the world don't face very real threats to their LIVES, health, and safety

As for some of the commenters, particularly a certain Anonymous (it is ALWAYS the Anonymouses isn't it?) who asked incredulously " How are homosexuals persecuted?"  I am begging you O Anonymous! If you would like to find out in just what ways homosexuals are persecuted, kindly go to any street in Nigeria and say very loudly "I am Gay".

If you are still alive after five minutes has elapsed, I'll take you out to dinner. Promise.

So without further ado, let us discuss the demerits of Heterosexuals since they are so full of themselves and their sexuality.

Don't be afraid to be Anti-Heterosexual.

Heterosexuals are the greatest pests known to the Planet Earth.

They are responsible for overpopulation of the planet, and as a result, global warming and climate change.

You remember earthquake in Virginia that damaged the Washington monument?

Caused by Heterosexuals.

The Earthquake that caused the Tsunami that ravaged Japan this year?

It's all Heterosexuals' fault.

China's One Child per Family Rule?

Completely the fault of Heterosexuals. If there were more Homosexuals in China, the people of China could be leading happier lives surrounded by more cute smiling children.

Mass unemployment in Nigeria?

It's all the fault of Heterosexuals. They produce too many children.

Contagious diseases are also aggravated by Heterosexuals - If there weren't so many people in so little space it wouldn't be so easy to spread disease from one person to another.

Speaking of disease.... Heterosexuals are responsible for the spread of almost all sexually transmitted diseases known to man. Sure, homosexual men are more vulnerable to certain diseases, but the vast majority of all STD transmissions occur from Heterosexual encounters.

Heterosexuals are also responsible for producing children who later grow up to be world renowned individuals of widespread reputation such as Abacha, Babangida, Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, and many other pleasant people.  Every single dictator, mass murderer, terrorist, and so on, is DIRECTLY as a result of a couple of heterosexuals somewhere.

Of course, we could argue that every single good person is also as a result of Heterosexuals, but that doesn't change the fact that they're still responsible for all the bad. At least, no gay person has the murky distinction of producing a fine and upstanding child named Idi Amin.

So, my friends, don't be afraid to be Anti-Heterosexual! Because Heterosexuals are ruining the planet.

Ichafu

Ichafu means "Head scarf" or "Head tie" in Igbo.

My Next Major Purchase

Di anyi... I don't know where the money is coming from but mennnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! The moment I get a job and have saved enough, I am buying this.

Wacom just came out with a new cintiq called the Wacom Cintiq 24HD.

I am officially IN LOVE!!!!!

I already use a Wacom Intuos4 to draw but having the cintiq would cut down drawing time by HOURS because unlike the Intuos4 you can draw directly on the screen of the Cintiq.

I need to start praying to get an amazing job or a sugar daddy or both because the new cintiq 24 hd costs $2400.

*tears and wailing*

Until I can afford it (which hopefully will be in the very near future) I'll have to satisfy myself by drooling over the hands on video of the Cintiq 24HD in action:

My First Live Stream

I drew this last night while streaming live on Ustream.

It was my first time ever livestreaming video and I'm so glad it turned out okay.

19 people showed up to watch me draw so thank you if you watched.

My Ustream channel is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sugabelly-draws

I made an Emeka Sticker!

So sorry for not posting more regularly but as usual my life is completely disorganised and I am trying to figure a lot of things out so I haven't been able to blog for a bit.

I have lots to write about and that will come later but for now, here's what I did yesterday:

I made an Emeka sticker for my graphics pad! (\^O^/)  - (sorry for the poor quality pictures. I used my phone)

Oh, and sorry for my horrible nail polish. I never remove my nail polish until most of it has chipped off my nail. It's an icky habit but hey.... Everybody's a little gross.

Penciling

Inking

Pencil lines erased

Colouring with Copics!! Yay!

Cutting it out was hard

Into the sticker machine you go

On its way to become a sticker

All done! My new Emeka sticker

It looks so cute on my Wacom graphics pad.

Maybe Babangida Needs to Watch His Back...

To be perfectly honest... I too would like to know