About

I’ve been meaning to write an about page for a while. I actually wrote one for the earlier version of this blog, but it was too much about me and less about the bog.

But a friend, an co-author on this Blog asked me an interesting question today. She wanted to know what my vision for the blog is, and this was my answer :

A place where people can write about any thing, discuss all topics and read about all topics. Like a villlage square or a barber shop. A place where Jews and Arabs can share ideas, and where Engineers and Philosophers can have a chat about any idea. An open forum for all mankind.

Today it starts as a blog, because blog provides the most rational forum for such a village center today – an extension of community sites of the early part of the last decade. But, in the future it will morph into something else. Not a facebook or linkedin – none of the platforms we know today in technology terms, something more organic, more reflective of our human beings prefer to communicate, engage.

Many people have referred  to lagbaja.org in many different words, some of my favorites being eclectic, different, dissonant, chaotic, poetic or even “like me” !

But my goal is to make it everything to every one. A place to find a good old argument, when you need one or find a great article about a great subject or write something you hope someone else will find useful , or annoying or maybe even drop a few lines of poems.

Lagbaja is a Nigerian word – Actually, there’s nothing like a Nigerian word in that sense. Lagbaja is a Yoruba word. It means somebody. Lagbaja.org is a marketplace of ideas – political, scientific, philosophical, economics, practical,…. Just ideas.

So join us and make it a great market place- your online barber shop. Please spread the word