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Is Jazz Urhobo Music? II
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When Goscolene Rhymes
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Is Jazz Urhobo Music? I
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Witches in Surgery Ward
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Does National Security Expire?
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Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?
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Yankius: Papiration & Bad Politicians
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Religious Desire of Alcohol (Goscolene)
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Discovery With Grace 2
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Discovery With Grace
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Efe Ajagba: Time of Reckoning
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Being A White Businessman in Nigeria: Part 2
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Being A White Businessman In Nigeria
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Creed Taylor and the Origins of Smooth Jazz
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Who Eats Who: The Sweetness of Nigeria?
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In Search of the Mufugbens
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Nigeria – A Society of Extremes
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The Eighth Rudder Blade
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AHOY Has Arisen!
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Where is Nigeria’s Great Middle-Class in 2021?
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From A Myth to A Cure: Vaccinations
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Dino Melaye Adopts the Pyrates Confraternity
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Nsibidi: Pre-Colonial Education in Nigeria
Nsibidi: Pre-Colonial Education in Nigeria It is the simplest thing in the world to assume Sub-Saharan Africans were illiterate and uncivilised before the coming of...
The Igbe Religion – A Faith
The Igbe Religion – A Faith Igbe is neither my personal nor family religion. Stiil, I lived in Urhoboland, where it originated and people still...
Morak Oguntade and the Art of Expression
Morak Oguntade and the Art of Everyday Expression After reading Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco a few years back, the...
Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture
Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture There was a time in the ’60s and ’70s when several jazz musicians of repute had to...
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions Formal education is one of the most overrated things in human development people on the African continent can gain. Maybe...
A Song for Reassurance: Okpan Arhibo Verses
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Okpan Arhibo: Traditional Disco Music
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A Death In A Dream
A Death In A Dream I had a dream last night that I had died while dreaming. My dream began by wooing me into a...
Urhobo Blow (UB): A True Martial Art?
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Yankius on Senator Omo-Agege
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Do The Urhobos Need Saviours or Leaders?
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The Urhobos Do Come Last – Mostly in Politics
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Yankius on Sweetness of Sex
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Yankius on Ogboni Society
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Yankius on Buhari Betrays Southerners
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Yankius on Buhari vs IPOB
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Yankius on Deziani’s Whereabouts
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Yankius on APC Gubernatorial primaries
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Yankius on Stealing by Messages
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The Logic of One
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The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man
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A Jazz Great I Met: Clifford Jarvis
A Jazz Great I Met: Clifford Jarvis It was an autumn evening in 1996 when I visited the up and coming French jazz bassist, Collard...
The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy
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The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual?
The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual? Whether Nigerian intellectuals like it or not, Europe and its extensions were built with the ideas of intellectuals. I cannot imagine...
The Ontology of the African II: The Youth
The derisory ontology of the African has not gone unchallenged. At the forefront, intellectuals, civil society leaders, freedom fighters, artists, activists, missionaries and politicians of...