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When My People Personalise the Truth

Grimot Nane Zine 05/09/2015 No Comments

When My People Personalise the Truth Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed…

Culture as Institution Ecocide Institutions Social Crisis The Environment

Fame and Prize Winners: Wole Soyinka and Nnimmo Bassey

Grimot Nane Zine 03/08/2015 No Comments

Wole Soyinka is famed for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 based on his significant contributions to poetry and drama. Though his award was highly controversial and the…

Musings Social Crisis Social Relations

Origins of an Opintar

Grimot Nane Zine 05/05/2015 No Comments

Origins of an Opintar “Birds got something to teach us all; About being free, yeah; Be no rain… Be no rain…” – Gil Scott-Heron, from the lyrics, I Think I’ll…

Elections Governance Institutions

Postponement of Elections: Achebe

Grimot Nane Zine 06/03/2015 No Comments

Postponement of Elections: Achebe Chinua Achebe was ostracised by the Western academy for his truthful but hard to swallow comments on two European intellectual sacred cows, Joseph Conrad and Albert…

Institutions

Sarcasm: Evidence of Genius

Grimot Nane Zine 20/10/2014 No Comments

Sarcasm: Evidence of Genius Sarcasm and ‘figures of speech’ are as old as language itself. From the Ivy League professor of literary criticism to the Oxbridge linguist. Or from the…