In The City Of Light
Michael Jackson. RIP...........well, not quite . News comes in that he has been re-packed and removed to a secret destination . No peace as yet, poor chap. Michael Jackson was part of the background scenery throughout my son's growing up years. His infancy was spent in the Ilupeju district of Lagos, Nigeria. This was in a pre-cellphone, pre-email era when postal mail took 15 days to reach and the telephone exchange of that area did not process ISD. ( overseas calls had to be made from The External Telecommunications Department in the business district ). With no easy and immediate access to the support system of elderly female relatives, it was a perfect setting for a nascent mother to lose her marbles. I was often at wits end when the little tyrant brought the house down with his inscrutable tantrums. As i had much trust in the calming magic of music, i religiously tried out various genres on the hyperactive child: Vocal, instrumental, classical, pop, folk, desi, west