What Is Academic Jazz, Does It matter?
What Is Academic Jazz, Does It matter? “Academic jazz” is a phrase that startles me. What does it mean? Today, jazz music, jazz dance and jazz poetry are mainstream academic…
Musings
Ayo Odebisi’s Embrace: Words of Henry Miller
Ayo Odebisi’s Embrace: Words of Henry Miller Ayo Odebisi, also known as Paramole, would have turned sixty-five on Wednesday, 28th of April. He was not a man you could forget.…
Mufugbenous and Mufugbeneity Means?
Mufugbenous and Mufugbeneity: What Do They Mean? Since January 2021, friends, acquaintances and even strangers overwhelmed me with questions about a couple of words I often use in speech and…
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid Ideology can be such a blinding and narrow-minded state of mind, individual or collective. Accurate history informs us that plagues and pandemics have devastated…
The Tooth of a Toad
The Tooth of a Toad There is an Urhobo tale from olden times that captures a listener’s or reader’s imagination through its use of animals and allegory. There was once…