Ayo Odebisi

Subsea Retreat for Captain Blood

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:April 22, 2023
Post category:Short Stories UCGFs
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Subsea Retreat for Captain Blood

Lapotidunity is the best thing goscolene, my favourite spirit, can do for anyone. Therefore, I avoid downing any more than two shots with joy and not sorrow. How can I not celebrate life despite living a life more tempestuous than El Niño? Drinking or rumming, it’s all the same thing depending on whom you are doing it with.

Nevertheless, today though, I am drinking alone, and I call it rumming. I do it every Friday evening in the best place for it ever, Davy Jones Locker. I am here waiting for yet another return of Paramole in a few days’ time. It’s his birthday soon. (more…)

Ayo Odebisi Embracing Culture: Through The Words of Henry Miller

Ayo Odebisi’s Embrace: Words of Henry Miller

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:April 25, 2021
Post category:Culture as Institution Musings Social Crisis
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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. The aura he projected on those around him and his immediate environment contributed to the weight of words and ways. I met no one as sincere with himself and about the whole palate called life. He stood as an exemplar of the human spirit. I never get carried away by his thought; he was not superhuman; he was human and humane. Nothing has reminded me of Paramole’s than some words from Henry Miller in the video below. (more…)

Paramole Returns for Birthday

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:April 27, 2020
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Paramole Returns for Birthday

Saturday the 25th of April 2020 was cold and blank in the Davy Jones Locker. A few sailors had passed through the rendezvous to the other side after becoming victims to Covid-19 and other causes but this Saturday there were no forgone sailors arriving. For the first time in my experience there, a particular case of forgone reversal occurred. The Great Door had open and solemn song could be heard accompanied by restrained okombo [drum] beats. I became very concerned and might have tricked myself I was not scared. (more…)

Remembering Ayo Odebisi (Paramole) – His Lessons

Remembering Ayo Odebisi: His Lessons

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:March 20, 2018
Post category:Institutions Social Crisis Social Relations
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Remembering Ayo Odebisi (Paramole): His Lessons

It has been one year since Ayo Odebisi went on another kind of going abroad trip. When I heard and looked at his photo, I saw more the love and friendship we had. With spontaneity, I tried to reach out to him. I named him “Jimmy”. All the people I love I give pet names. Paramole’s has been the only posthumous instance. In the eulogy “I Will not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole),“ I wrote what many have said encapsulated his life and what he represented on one page. I will not repeat such here. What I valued most about Odebisi was his perspicacious construction of eudaimonia in the image of the 4-7 Creed, the Creed of the Pyrates. His approach to creating a better society could never have been more sincere or practical, but it somehow remains lofty to many. (more…)

I Will Not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole)

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:March 20, 2017
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I Will Not Mourn for Ayo Odebisi (Paramole)

Ayo Odebisi a.k.a. Paramole (1956-2017) was one of the three persons [cum mentors] who never ceased loving me as the human being I am. He loved me despite my apparent unusual and often disconcerting approach to life, perhaps because he was a far more unusual fellow with an even more disconcerting approach to life. Death has changed this dynamic, taking me unawares. (more…)