User:Finni71

Bio: I am Andrew Finni son of Raz Ishola Finni and Mutiat Aduke Ajala. I spent my early years in Eko, Lagos; Oko Awo, Oke Ari, Yaba, Ejirin, Keffi, Lagos. I am father to Rachel Finni.

Lifestyle: I love simple life; indoors with BBC Radio 4 playing in the background and rain pattering on the window. I also love entertaining, cooking and other life’s comforts and occasional merriments but I am not materialistic.

Outlook: To be self-sufficient, generous and enjoy my life without causing harm or distress to others and myself. Give back into the world more than I takes out of it.

Political View: Apathy; either left or right. Passion for practical social justice; access to opportunities for all, fair return for all and adequate security for the vulnerable. ..

The quality I value most in others: Compassion, integrity, fairness, others regardingness.

Dislike: Cruelty, insensitivity & irrational behaviour.

Music: I like most kind of music especially Jazz, R&B, Cuba, Reggae, Classical, World Music Genre: Juju, Highlife, Fuji and more. ..

Favourite Books: The Republic, Selection of African Poetry otherwise factual books.

Other Interest: I love nature; the autumn season, rain, lightning & thunder storms, the woodland, landscape, seascape, lighthouses, the dark night sky & stars.

People I admire: Socrates, Plato, Jesus, St Paul, Ruth, Moses, Muhammad, Dalai Lama, Bob Marley, John Stuart Mills, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Willy Brandt, Mary Robinson, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Thomas Sankara, Julius Nyerere, Malcolm X, Olof Palme, Michali Gorbachev, John Paul II, Samora Machel, Nelson Mandela, Daniel Barenboim, John Sentamu and more. ..

I don’t think I am half way through yet. I am currently in Cockfosters and very stressed; busy working to pay taxes, parking fines, bank charges and enjoy some ‘goodies’ then moan about social injustice.