The Man Behind Mohammed Babangida

You have to love when important men take the time to do what so many of us do on a regular basis. Mohammed Babangida is an influential African (Nigerian) businessman who also sits down at his computer to expound on his tastes in music (most notably Jazz), just like you or I would. His great love of the music so influenced by his homeland is beyond admirable.

I love blogs about music. I love all types of music and find Mohammed Babangida to have extremely poignant opinions on the influence of Jazz on all forms of music today. Mr. Babangida is also an avid sportsman. These are the things you do not often see when you meet a man in a business suit during the normal processes of a day's business and what makes blogs and other online forums so interesting. It allows a peek into a private life and perspective and brings everyone together in a common sense of individual commonness. I'm not sure if commonness is a word--or if it would be spelled that way if it is, but it suits the idea. We have so much in common and the Internet allows us to see that. It helps to bring people of all races and countries together in a unity that was perhaps never before possible. (Okay, I looked it up, commonness works.)

For the average I-traveller it doesn't matter so much that Mohammed Babangida is involved in many business pursuits. All that matters is he is a man with deep convictions and great passion that we can all understand and appreciate.