series. Enjoy...
UNIBEN - 1999
When the posters came up on the hostel walls
that there was going to be a Talent hunt show
coming up which was organised by Femi
Akinwunmi, I quickly registered for it as a
rapper. The star price was a CD player..my
dream. I imagined being able to replace our
old cassette player and put on a CD like the
rest of the boys.
I practised my lines and waited for d-day. 3
days to the event, I woke up with fever and to
find my body covered with little sores...I had
chicken pox. I used calamine lotion like my life
depended on it, but they only seemed to
increase by the day.
Then came the day of the competition. Everyone
dressed up and left one after the other to the
venue. I was in pain from the heat but in greater
pain from being in that room rather than on that
stage. I was covered in calamine lotion,
disappointed as all my hope that I would have
miraculously recovered in those 2 days had gone
and with it, my dream of a CD player.
As I tried to play a tape on the radio to take my
mind off everything, the cassette player wouldn't
work. That was the last straw. In anger, I got up,
washed off the lotion from my hands and feet,
washed off my face and neck. I wore a long
sleeve shirt, buttoned up and hit the road with
my friend/manager...Bayo Adekeye. The walk
from my room to the Uniben Auditorium was the
most difficult 45 mins of my life...well, one of.
I got to the venue early enough, the competition
was about to begin. I saw the brand new silver
BUSH CD player on the stage...it was beautiful. I
couldn't help but imagine. Then the compere,
Tee A began to call out the names. Before long, I
heard my name...I came out did my one track
performance and in the second round,I switched
the game at them,and did a comedy
performance.
The next morning, our neighbours woke up to
the loudest music, it came from our room, we
were celebrating, singing, shouting and dancing
to music from the shiny BUSH CD player on our
table...and in midst of the crowd, a young
dreamer covered from head to toe in white
calamine lotion danced the hardest.....
Now guys......i'll stop here,you guys should wait
for the book. It comes out this December.
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