Talatu-Carmen
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Graduate Student |
| Location | midwestern university town/city, midwestern state, United States |
| Introduction | My blogger-personality Talatu-Carmen reflects my rapidly developing multiple personalities, and embodies my chronic inability to focus on just one thing. My blog Abubuwan da nake tunani chronicled the things that flitted across my mind often when I was procrastinating my school work and is now a vestige of graduate school. Most of my posts have to do with Africa, Nigeria, or Hausa culture. In the blog Abubuwan da nake Rubutawa, I place larger chunks of text (short stories, translation projects, film and book reviews) that I'd like to get feedback on. Please feel free to comment, but please do not use, quote, or re-post anything from these blogs without first requesting my permission. This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com - See more at: http://marketingwithsara.com/amazon/warning-to-all-affiliate-marketers#sthash.zvmpOsm2.dpuf |
| Interests | African languages and literature, postcolonial studies, African Diaspora Studies, literature, Caribbean literature, Nigeria, contemporary Nigerian literature, Hausa, Hausa film, Hausa popular culture, film, photography, New York, Hillcrest School Jos, heteroglossia, poststructuralism, writing, travelling to visit people!, kaza kaza kaza |
| Favorite movies | Kal Ho Naa Ho, Albashi, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Hijack Stories,When Harry Met Sally, Zazzabi, The Chronicles of Narnia, Monsoon Wedding, Bend it Like Beckham, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Godfather, Hotel Rwanda, Amandla, Nelio's Story, Commedia Infantil, The English Patient, The Matrix, Lost in Translation, Twelfth Night, Forgiveness, Hyenas, Taafe Fanga, Quartier Mozart, La Vie Sur Terre, Pieces d’Identite, Bye Bye Africa, Zazzabi, Darratt, La Nuit de Verite, Un Condamné à Mort s'est échappé, Do the Right Thing |
| Favorite music | Jeremiah Gyang, P-Square, Idris Abdulkareem, JJC and the 419 Squad, Maintain, 2Face Idibia, India Arie, Daara J, Bollywood soundtracks, Handel, Chopin, Bach, Fugees, Fela Kuti, Jem, Arabic dance music, Ella Fitzgerald, various kwaito |
| Favorite books | Waiting for an Angel, Twelfth Night, Posession, In da So da Kauna, Anthills of the Savannah, Devil on the Cross, Nervous Conditions, Ways of Dying, Pride and Prejudice, Interpreter of Maladies, The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, Perelandra, The Great Divorce, Midnight's Children, Beauty, Imaginary Homelands, Climate of Fear, Icarus Girl, Home and Exile, Jane Eyre, 'Yartsana, Measuring Time |
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
metallic taste. My roommate used to yell at me for picking up pennies since dogs could have peed on them. Why do I remember the taste? scary...