Apart from Yoruba and English, the other languages I speak are Hausa, Igbo, French and Spanish (even if it's only, "zo kachi abinchi", "kele ndi begi", "Comment vous appelez vous?' and "nunca acuesto tarde".)
At the age of 17, I was introduced to the ancient �science� of palmistry. I also began to practise yoga on a regular basis
At the age of 18, having read a lot on sickle-cell anaemia, I considered myself an old man.
At the age of 21, I decided I would never marry. Later I thought I would marry but have no children.
The title of my Psychology degree thesis is Anxiety and Depression in sickle cell anaemia
I love listening to Jamaican reggae, the music of Fela, Alhaji Odolaye Aremu, Ogundare Foyanmu and Sunny Ade. I also like Al Stewart and Joni Mitchell.
I cry hard each time I get a blood transfusion. The latest was in September 2004 after a severe attack of malaria and typhoid
People say I'm quiet and gentle. I don't know, I'm just me.
I started sprouting grey in my early 30s and decided I would never apply dye to my hair. I admire Wole Soyinka for keeping his hair on
I started and completed Menace In My Blood in 1992.
I have undergone intermittent and long periods of unemployment. During that time, I did all sorts of odd jobs including selling American Visa Lottery on Molue and Danfo (commercial buses) in Lagos. I have also been an Okada (commercial motorcycle) rider and bus driver though I quit soon enough, not having the stamina for it.
I have never cast a ballot in my country. Compelled to exercise my right, I would probably vote for radical lawyer Gani Fawehinmi's National Conscience Party, even if I knew the party would not win a single constituency.
I am comfortable with all sorts of personality types except with religious bigots. It's like declaring that God understands only Papiamento (whereas I know He speaks only Guosa and Esperanto)!
I don't believe in eternal punishment (Hellfire). In fact I lost my religion partly as a result of that evil doctrine. I consider myself an agnostic, though a reverent one, awed into silence by the mystery of life.
I accept a Universalist view of the Afterlife. I also accept the doctrine of karma and its logical adjunct, re-incarnation.
I have a horror of burial. I had long decided that cremation would do me very nicely.