Are you a market? SELL YOURSELF ! Defining a market... Oxford dictionary of advanced English defines a market as [countable] an occasion when people buy and sell goods; the open area or building where they meet to do this. Market as a verb means to ‘advertise or promote something'. The first time I heard the question ARE YOU A MARKET? being asked, I didn't understand it but soon as I put my mind into the idea of a market, I knew, I got the point. B uying and selling, display of goods, wielding your convincing power to sell what you have, beating bargains and at long last, getting a reward for your efforts (money). With this, I guess we've come to an understanding that the question ‘are you a market?' is simply asking, what do you do? What do you have to exchange for something you need, be it goods or skills. When Dr. Taye Obateru said ‘ sell yourself' during one foreign correspondence lecture, it sounded cheap, I almost laughed but then he asked a...