tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post2356181472630547871..comments2024-03-04T15:46:40.928-06:00Comments on Likembe: Cross-Dressing Fun with Area ScatterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-68675786016021566782024-02-29T05:09:17.496-06:002024-02-29T05:09:17.496-06:00Best IndeedBest IndeedMy247Vibezhttps://my247vibez.com.ngnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-37990788890237388312023-03-17T06:02:24.490-05:002023-03-17T06:02:24.490-05:00i Appreciate this post alot Dancehall songsi Appreciate this post alot <a href="https://tuneaddict.net/" rel="nofollow">Dancehall songs</a>Weekendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326996352249168197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-54683607839503350692023-03-17T06:01:18.550-05:002023-03-17T06:01:18.550-05:00Thanks for sharing this amazing postThanks for sharing this amazing postGhana Musichttps://www.aacehypez.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-45862917646337200592022-02-14T19:44:30.091-06:002022-02-14T19:44:30.091-06:00Area scatter should mean, when he enters, the area...Area scatter should mean, when he enters, the area scatters...its probably a way to gather attention with his name.Ifyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05408863864636990219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-63229991047582461162018-10-03T13:19:16.882-05:002018-10-03T13:19:16.882-05:00I love this nice oneI love this nice oneMp3 Downloadhttps://entryloaded.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-13839280713899005132017-05-23T13:14:58.203-05:002017-05-23T13:14:58.203-05:00I'll like to order his DVD. Contact me via mat...I'll like to order his DVD. Contact me via materpointer@yahoo.co.uk Memoirsofanabaguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06096709879355919553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-3726681864734324282017-02-02T23:27:15.742-06:002017-02-02T23:27:15.742-06:00Yes I believe there was a record pressing plant in...Yes I believe there was a record pressing plant in Onitsha. The record company's name was Nigerphone. Birth of a Nation by Celestine Ukwu and Hail Biafra by Rex Lawson and others were released under that labelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-88092995825359510862016-03-28T14:02:33.467-05:002016-03-28T14:02:33.467-05:00Just came across your blog today. A wonderful reso...Just came across your blog today. A wonderful resource! And so lovingly kept. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and rare music.The Mighty Louchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06604156918603147317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-16615678669616819102011-05-06T08:32:15.278-05:002011-05-06T08:32:15.278-05:00I am so happy to find this site. I am an anthropol...I am so happy to find this site. I am an anthropologist with interest in sexuality, the erotic, and music broadly. I grew up in Aba and watched area scatter perform on TV in the 80s. He was amazing, if not peerless. Now I am interested in his sexuality. I love him and want to retrace the steps of this 'queer' performer. I know he was a cross dresser and want to know more about him.Chimaraokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03651173312308346728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-54204167227299977322009-01-09T11:25:00.000-06:002009-01-09T11:25:00.000-06:00I remember him from a performance on NTA Aba in th...I remember him from a performance on NTA Aba in the seventies. I think it was on a programme called Ukonu's club. There was also a group called Great Abaraka on that programme. Area Scatter sang this really hilarious song about a love triangle involving himself and his two brothers Joseph and Emman and a girlfriend common to all three called Salome. This supposedly took place at "58 Enyi Road in the year 1958". I really loved this and never forgot it. Thank you for remembering this great performer.knight pixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12022957008217891458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-67872859718791698522007-11-06T05:40:00.000-06:002007-11-06T05:40:00.000-06:00Hammattan:Thank you for your comment. I have adde...Hammattan:<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comment. I have added your blog to my links.John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00603354267259344759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-46571033584422027802007-10-30T07:58:00.000-05:002007-10-30T07:58:00.000-05:00When I think of great performers I knew while grow...When I think of great performers I knew while growing up, Area Scatter often crosses my mind, and I had always wondered what became of him and at the sam time wished I could lay hands on any of his works. Having said so, you can then imagine my joy when I came acreoss your posting "Cross-Dressing Fun with Area Scatter" As a kid growing up in Enugu in the late fifties and early sixties, I had the luck of seeng Area Scatter perform many times. At that time he was a troubadour and goes from street to street doing his stuff. I remember that most of the times I ran into his performance, I had followed him with other kids as he performs at at least four blocks before I return home. One popular classic of his in those days was the love story about one short boy and a short girl. Thanks a lot John B for this nice trip down memory lane.<BR/>Hamattangriotmediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16753099512459739013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-61177031046393130242007-10-11T06:45:00.000-05:002007-10-11T06:45:00.000-05:00It is not fair to say that the name, Area Scatter,...It is not fair to say that the name, Area Scatter, has no meaning.<BR/>Area Scatter, the name, denotes eccentricity. As I discussed in one of the Nigerian forums, in those days and even now, cross dressing was/is unimaginable in Igbo land. Not only did this man cross dress, he did it boldly and proudly. To scatter an area means to turn an area upside down. He must have considered himself a revolutionary and the best way to sum that up was by choosing Area Scatter for a name.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-83173932325227726032007-09-30T00:56:00.000-05:002007-09-30T00:56:00.000-05:00Thanks for the great music -- I remember seeing Ar...Thanks for the great music -- I remember seeing Area Scatter in a documentary sometime, but he'd slipped from memory until I saw your post. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for another thoughtful, informative music blog! Your readers may be interested in visiting <A HREF="http://www.soundroots.org" REL="nofollow">SoundRoots</A> for more from Africa and other parts of the planet.SpinTheGlobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18305716637990989057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-86380446100606613262007-09-08T15:42:00.000-05:002007-09-08T15:42:00.000-05:00there's a pretty nice desciption of the jester/clo...there's a pretty nice desciption of the jester/clown thing in Chris Abani's "graceland" - a book I really enjoyed, another aspect of the book I really liked was the description of watching movies as a kid in lagos and categorising two main sorts of characters as "john wayne" and "actor" (the villain)<BR/><BR/>any one else read this? have thoughts about it?zimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680883948443440793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-51707666792714943022007-09-06T15:41:00.000-05:002007-09-06T15:41:00.000-05:00Anonymous, Jon,By all means I will be posting more...Anonymous, Jon,<BR/><BR/>By all means I will be posting more Igbo and Nigerian music in the future, in fact that is my main interest. The thing is, I like to take the time & do a little research before posting the tunes & do it up right.<BR/><BR/>As to the meaning of "Area Scatter," that is apparently a vernacular "Broken Engish" expression. If you Google the term you'll see there is a Nigerian movie by that name - I have no idea what it means. Any Nigerians out there who can help us?John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00603354267259344759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-21867402083394824452007-09-06T14:39:00.000-05:002007-09-06T14:39:00.000-05:00Very nice. . thanks. As an englishman observing fr...Very nice. . thanks. <BR/>As an englishman observing from a fairly considerable cultural distance, I am rather curious how someone gets to be called "Area Scatter". . . A wonderful name to be sure, but is it chosen purely for it's musicality, or is it a phonetic spelling of something igbo. . . coz it has no obvious meaning in English.<BR/>Jonjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12995957960962942674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-35746348184584627742007-09-06T11:37:00.000-05:002007-09-06T11:37:00.000-05:00Thanks for the music - did see him/her in konkombe...Thanks for the music - did see him/her in konkombe. By all means more Igbo - and we downloaders who get to Nigeria "infrequently" love the full albums rather than single tunes.<BR/><BR/>thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-72028957369259567682007-09-02T17:24:00.000-05:002007-09-02T17:24:00.000-05:00Hey, how about this:"Bonnie Raitt says Area Scatte...Hey, how about this:<BR/><BR/>"Bonnie Raitt says Area Scatter is the Ru Paul of Nigeria!" Ha Ha!<BR/><BR/>Actually, I read about Area's supposed death on one of the Nigerian discussion forums when I was researching this post, and you know how <I>that</I> is. So I suppose he could still be wandering around doing his wild & crazy thing!John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00603354267259344759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5459104099060577976.post-30195409996536935192007-09-02T15:52:00.000-05:002007-09-02T15:52:00.000-05:00wow! thanks for posting the album! i've never been...wow! thanks for posting the album! i've never been particularly familiar with his music, though i remember hearing about him a lot when i was a child... i recall him being described in terms of jesterdom more than anything. but that's the way things were in those days: anybody who was markedly "different"--yet still reasonably entertaining and non-threatening to the larger cultural values--was considered a "clown."<BR/><BR/>i had no idea he had been killed, though... have you any idea of the general timeframe that this happened?<BR/><BR/>(also, i had no idea that <I>Beats of the Heart</I> had had an accompanying book!)Comb & Razorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11912912211584098914noreply@blogger.com