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Joshua Omoijiade
Senior Designer @ Studio Contra
Lagos, Nigeria
Architect, Designer, Art Director, Background and character artist, writer and painter. you can also find me learning philosophy and languages. Writing is an avenue for me to merge my interests.
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Posted on Nov. 3, 2024, 12:04 p.m.
Evil Comes Partly by Chance
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I recently read I Do Not Come to You by Chance, a novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, and I was particularly captivated by the tragic hero's journey. The story is set in Southeastern Nigeria, focusing on the lives of a modest family. Most specifically, it is Kingsley’s story. The dysfunction of N...
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Posted on Aug. 9, 2024, 12:59 p.m.
Does Loving give you life?
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Charlie is surrounded by friends that evening - they’re all from work. The warm lights of the bar create a cosy atmosphere as they gather around a meal and drinks - the mood is celebratory. Charlie’s divorce is final - he’s free of the shackles of his marriage. In the front a stocky man starts on...
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Posted on July 22, 2024, 8:55 a.m.
Who says who we are?
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The Milindapahna tells the tale of a king, Milinda and his conversation with Buddhist sage, Nagasena. The king asks the sage, following pleasantries: “How is your reverence known, and what sir is your name?”. To this, Nagasena replies I am called Nagasena but Nagasena is only a designation; here ...
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Posted on July 16, 2024, 7:44 a.m.
Passion's Tragedy
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4 min read
Once upon a time, romantic love came to be. In one version of the story, the pair of hearts are ignited and under the pressures of the world around them, their passion is benefited of in stolen moments; but it is ultimately short-lived. One in the least must depart; death takes them or distance p...
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Posted on July 10, 2024, 7:45 a.m.
The Heroes with Blood on their hands
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“Ape not kill ape!”, Caesar breathed deeply as he arrested his rage. Towering over his adversary Koba, he pulled back and gave him a chance to repent. Koba, bloodied and scarred from even before the fight knelt and offered his palm in submission. As Caesar, liberator of the apes, acquiesced to Ko...
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Posted on June 30, 2024, 6:16 p.m.
States, Societies, and the face of Lagosian Architecture: Part 2
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"A ruler who governs with virtue is like the north star; he stays in his place, and all the constellations revolve around him." -Mencius (student of Confucius)In 202 BC (the year of the Ox), the Han Dynasty rose to power as Liu Bang became emperor Gaozu following the key battle of Gaixia. ...
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Posted on June 16, 2024, 8:30 p.m.
Eren Yeagar and Freedom's cage
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Warning: this article contains spoilers for Attack on TitanWhat becomes of the humanity within when a person becomes a god? In the world-famous Shonen Anime, Attack on Titan (AOT), I believe we get one version of an answer to this question. Eren Yeagar, the show's main Protagonist turned antagoni...
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Posted on June 10, 2024, 9:28 a.m.
States, Societies, and the face of Lagosian Residential Architecture
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In terms of the numbers, Lagos city has a housing problem. Reports by the World Bank show up to 70% of the population lives in informal settlements or slums, and their residences have no access to the most basic facilities. There aren't enough houses, and the houses are of poor quality. Nigeria i...
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Posted on June 3, 2024, 10:18 a.m.
Perfect days and Shrines
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Light cuts through the window of a private jet casting beautiful shadows and multi-coloured rays as it passes through a plastic bottle leaning against the wall of the plane. "There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see”. There is a comforting sentiment in the tweet by Jordan Pe...
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Posted on April 7, 2024, 6:27 p.m.
The Architecture of Fluid Change
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Of all the nations in the Avatar Universe, the water benders’ choices might seem less imposing compared to their counterparts in the fire and earth nations. I wondered why they did not hold a more prominent status in their world; water is, after all, that element even more prevalent than the ear...
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Posted on March 31, 2024, 11:27 a.m.
The Architecture of Power
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"Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire, will, energy, and the drive to achieve what they want." Fire, that most compelling element, embodies propagation – birth and destruction in equal measure. It consumes until it is stopped or sated. From a small territ...
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Posted on March 24, 2024, 5:27 a.m.
The Architecture of Persistence
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“Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring” The earth kingdom is everywhere. In the world of the avatar and spirits; where some people breathe fire, and others glide on air and others on water, the most p...
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Posted on March 17, 2024, 8:23 p.m.
The Architecture of Grounded Freedom
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"Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns and found peace and freedom." Imagine a world where buildings breathe in harmony with the wind, where structures seem to defy gravity, reaching for the boundless sky. This is the world of the Air Nomads ...
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Posted on March 10, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
The Song of the City and the Taste of our Coffee
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Why is it that a person in one city can wake up late, stroll to a nearby coffee shop, and savour a leisurely start to the day, while another in a neighbouring city wakes at dawn, battling traffic just for a lukewarm cup of instant coffee at work? The answer stretches far beyond a simple "why." It...
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Posted on March 1, 2024, 5:59 p.m.
In Paise of Perrons
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I peered from a rooftop one cloudy afternoon and from that vantage I saw the sides of towering houses and offices in Ikoyi; Perrons. That day, a realization dawned on me: I cherish the sight of these external staircases gracing the sides of buildings. For clarity, let me define "Perron" - it's...
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Posted on March 8, 2023, 2:09 p.m.
In Praise of the Every Day
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In the late 1950s, a Dutch Artist called Johannes Vermeer created a painting called “The Little Street”. This painting though worth discussion features nothing remarkable at all. If you look closely you can see a woman in a doorway of a house on that street of delft, sewing; a couple of children ...
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Posted on Feb. 20, 2023, 9:03 p.m.
Finding meaning with anything anywhere all at once
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Once, in the Northern part of France, in the Parisian Cafes on the left bank, a diminutive son of a sailor named Jean Paul Satre was playing his part in making philosophy cool. He was a famous thinker who dealt with a branch of philosophy described as existentialism. After one of my essays on how...
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Posted on Feb. 19, 2023, 9:43 a.m.
To another Beginner on their fitness journey
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Some five years ago I started taking my physical fitness a bit more seriously. The words that follow are not expert advice or suggestions but, recently I started believing very much that beginners should have more of a say in matters of fitness - we should share our journeys, struggles and insigh...
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Posted on Feb. 12, 2023, 1:37 p.m.
A thought: Why You probably matter.
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Up till now, I’ve written on things with more solid footing. My thoughts have been based on experiences in my daily life, and even when I spoke of love in the open or in private logs, I felt my questions fairly articulate. With the topic of cosmic significance, however, it continues to be a lot t...
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Posted on Feb. 4, 2023, 10:09 a.m.
Learning French has been Messy
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Many people ask me about my french learning journey. I usually have long winding voice notes, texts, and stories about the journey I've taken thus far. Still, I want to share it for the first time in writing. If you follow me anywhere or read my earlier post about language learning being a rather...
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Posted on Jan. 28, 2023, 2:21 p.m.
How I developed a personality test Obsession; why I won't fix it.
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It's getting obsessive. I would say I'm going to only some lengths to do a new test or discuss it further. Still, I am thoroughly captivated by tests and exercises that I can do and get feedback on some portion of who I might be. The first type of personality test or literature I encountered w...
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Posted on Jan. 25, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
A note on time to my fellow Explorers
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“Even the words that we are speaking now, thieving time has stolen away, and nothing can return” — Carlo Rovelli. I first wondered about the nature of time as a child watching cartoons and all the botched versions of Hollywood time travel movies that came my way. In reality, I wondered about ...
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Posted on Jan. 22, 2023, 3:14 p.m.
I Love you for Now
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Articulating my thoughts on matters we have settled as human beings is usually within reach. Maybe we never know things for certain, but at least we settle them. The difficulty is with the things that refuse to coalesce in our collective consciousness. I spend a fair bit of my time thinking a...
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Posted on Jan. 20, 2023, 8:37 a.m.
The perks of being Socially Awkward
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One of my favourite series on Netflix is the Good Doctor. I saw the trailer and got hooked, binging and following as I could. The lead character Dr Shaun Murphy is a most captivating genius. He tackles medical case after case with his almost magical ability to parse problems apart, even just for ...
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Posted on Jan. 14, 2023, 4:43 p.m.
How being disloyal and Childish can make you a polyglot
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Hello, I'm coming clean here on the first line; that title was just to grab your attention. If you stick around, you might find out why it's not too far from the truth. For my first insight on Twocents, I wanted to tell everyone about something I'm a veritable expert in; Me learning languages...
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