The movie, Long Shot looks like a load of laughs. The movie features Charlize Theron as an American presidential candidate who runs into a childhood friend and they both proceed to get involved in the most unlikely shenanigans. What's more interesting though is the way Hollywood has started to sow the seed for a female president. I had a discussion with a colleague about how Hollywood influences the psyche, the culture and the laws in America (and the rest of the world by extension) only to watch this movie trailer a few days later. The idea of a black American president was seeded over a long time. The earliest I remember was in the 1997 Bruce Willis movie The Fifth Element. The concept seemed ludicrous at the time but it kept coming back to Hollywood. 24 was another good example. A more realistic one. It showed what a black First Family would look like. And the American people bought into it. That is one of the roles of art in a society. Record our history, shape our psyche,
So why do I think the Nigerian government should increase the minimum wage? #Storytime Why the Government Should Pay More In 2002, I was in Lagos searching for an internship position. The average pay for interns at the time ranged from N3,000 to N5,000. There was a popular telecoms company that always took on interns and paid N3,000. That was my fall-back option but my goal was to find a place that paid N5,000. I scoured the whole of Lagos, walking door-to-door, office-to-office, dropping off what was my resume at the time. You have to remember this was 2002, before Facebook , LinkedIn or Nairaland.com . I didn't even have a mobile phone. Eventually I got an interview at this company in Victoria Island. They offered to pay me N6,000 but I hated the thought of working there. Why? First thing, everyone wore uniforms in this place. And when I say everyone, that includes 40-year old men with wives at home. The company manufactured electronic cards not medical equipment! Why the