Yankius: Trump – No Nigerians Big Nat Turner: Yankee Doo Doo! Yankius: Look here if you must hail me so it must be Yankee Doodle Doo, right! Big Nat Turner: Yes, Yankee Doodle Doo. Yankius: What’s matter you? You look dispunkious. Big Nat Turner: Trump has won the US…
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Culture as Institution
Meg Searches
Meg Searches Meg fights off a short stocky lone bully who slaps him without provocation and challenges him to a fight. Many eyes on him, he lets the assault go without retaliation or complaint. Meg, a tall slim good-looking soft-looking boy with a sharp clean haircut stands looking much older…
Institutions
Yankius: Seun Leave Igbo?
Yankius: Seun Leave Igbo? Tafia Hallelujah: Yankpikpi which ones? Long time no face to face. Yankius: You only come here with gist that leads to fight. Tafia Hallelujah: This time there will be no fight. Yankius: Then what do you have to tell me. Tafia Hallelujah: Someone yab Seun Anikulapo-Kuti…
Corruption
Not Winning Is Un-Nigerian
Not Winning Is Un-Nigerian #NigeriaParticipationNotMedals is a meme that could soon trend online as a feel-good factor of compensation for Nigeria’s poor performance in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Nigerians need cheering up, lots of it. A haul of medals from the Olympics could have given Nigerians much needed respite from…
Corruption
Soyinka: Cryptic Interpreter
Soyinka: Cryptic Interpreter The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka is an exercise in expanding the awareness of the realities of postcolonial Nigeria. We cannot understand Nigeria as a linear story like Cinderella or Macbeth. The story of Nigeria in the postcolonial era is beyond plot. Postcolonial Nigeria is an endless stream…
Governance
Postcolonial Songs – Neoliberal Overtake
Postcolonial Songs – Neoliberal Overtake Overtake Don Overtake Overtake by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti Fela na Kpoti. We know the Man well enough. The songs of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, simply known as Fela now have both international appeal and relevance perhaps hitherto not recognised. The most relevant now is Overtake Don Overtake Overtake…
Culture as Institution
Intelligent Nigerians, Home Languages
Intelligent Nigerians, Home Languages Unsurprisingly, the typical Nigerian believes Nigerians are amongst the most intelligent people in the world. The reasons for this belief are various. But none of them are provable by evidence. Some attribute this broad belief among Nigerians to certain factors.
Culture as Institution
Obẹnẹ: Urhobo Love Sustainably
Obẹnẹ: Urhobo Love Sustainably The Act Urhobo love. Obẹnẹ, is one of the finest approaches to love in the world. But surprisingly younger Urhobo people in present times believe that Urhobos of previous times did not know what love was. Ojahwevwe! Obẹnẹ, the Urhobo version of love is not…
Culture as Institution
Postcolonial Songs – Wild Geese (Nigeria’s End)
Postcolonial Songs – Wild Geese The Flight of the Wild Geese by Joan Armatrading The song was released in 1978 as the opening theme of the star-studded action-packed blockbuster movie The Wild Geese. The song turns out prophetic for most of Africa, Nigeria most of all. Some words are added…
Culture as Institution
Is Jazz Urhobo Music? II
Is Jazz Urhobo Music? II In part one, I talked about scat originating in Urhoboland, then known as Otọr Urhobo. ‘Djueta, scat, was never introduce into Uhuoro’ojevwu merely because it sounded good, or words were lacking. The words of song in Uhuoro’ojevwu were subversive in the utmost. Leaders, Big People,…