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Papiration And Bad Nigerian Politicians
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Yankius: Papiration & Bad Politicians
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A Bullet For A Rogue Harms Only Thieves
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Creed Taylor and the Origins of Smooth Jazz
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In Search of the Mufugbens
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The Lure of Collecting Jazz Albums
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What Is Academic Jazz, Does It matter?
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Ayo Odebisi’s Embrace: Words of Henry Miller
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Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him
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An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid
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The Tooth of a Toad
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Is My Name Okolo Too?
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A Song for Reassurance: Okpan Arhibo Verses
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Yankius on Nigeria’s Looming Collapse
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A Death In A Dream
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Yankius on Julian Assange
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Yankius on $16 billion for Electricity
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Oppression: Some Questions
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Oppression: A Nigerian Youth Metaphor
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Yankius on Iyabo Obasanjo’s Ambition to Be President
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The Leadership, Bad Brother – 7
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The Leadership, Bad Brother 6
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I Will Not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole)
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The Leadership, Bad Brother 3
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The Leadership, Bad Brother 2
The Leadership, Bad Brother 2 The diary I titled, The Leadership of a Bad Brother I give its second rendering. It is the case the...
The Leadership, Bad Brother
The Leadership, Bad Brother Reflections on the leadership of someone have inspired these musings. As ordinary as they are, daily I can best describe him...
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Strange Diet Combo – Stella and Bread
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A Jazz Great I Met: Clifford Jarvis
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The Confessions of A Post-Impotent Guy
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A Metaphor: Ending Corruption in Nigeria
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