Grimot Nane Zine, Author at Grimot Nane Zine

Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria In 1953, the Pyrates Confraternity (PC), an all-male campus fraternity, began at the University of Ibadan (then a college of the University of London) by…

Social Crisis UCGFs

No Friend No Foe

Grimot Nane Zine 05/08/2015 No Comments

No Friend No Foe We often shy away from egregious grammar in the ignorance of supposed manliness. Agnotologics, ponerologics, repression, oppression, absurdity, deception and toxic entitlement all rolled into one…

Social Crisis UCGFs

“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists?

Grimot Nane Zine 05/08/2015 No Comments

“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists? If you have the privilege to visit Warri, the former “oil city” of Nigeria in Delta State coastal Southern part and ask about the organisation that calls…

Corruption Elections Governance Social Relations

Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness?

Grimot Nane Zine 03/08/2015 No Comments

Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness? After innumerable citizens indigenous to Lagos and the South-West region in Nigeria roundly criticised traditional ruler Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos. For his unfortunate…

Elections Governance

Wole Soyinka and Democratic Forgiveness?

Grimot Nane Zine 02/08/2015 No Comments

Wole Soyinka and Democratic Forgiveness? In a very revealing and dramatic recent Guardian interview conducted by correspondent David Smith http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/29/wole-soyinka-interview-nigeria-corruption-goodluck-jonathan. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka lamented the process of the ongoing…

Corruption Elections Governance Social Relations

Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? 2

Grimot Nane Zine 02/08/2015 No Comments

Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness? 2 I must confess I have been keenly waiting for the next Wole Soyinka “moment.” Well, no matter how long it would take. Somehow, it…