“Accept Your Loss and Move On” – The Eighth Rudder Blade Expellers and the expelled from groups or organisations often delude themselves one cannot survive without them. This article seeks to debunk such false illusions.
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Musings
Oppression: A Nigerian Youth Metaphor
Oppression: A Nigerian Youth Metaphor “Those who have come to know and trust death embrace it with love. It is the very foundation of freedom. Oppressors love no one, not their wives, not their children, not their friends. How can such a person love death? Behind the empty shell of the oppressor, he…
Musings
The Leadership of a Bad Brother – Flash 5
The Leadership of a Bad Brother–Flash 5 The end of the era of the leaders who are bad brothers need not be obscure. It must never be. Final evidence of poor but manipulative leadership who has enduring rule over others for a long time. By deception, arrogance, intimidation, force, mystery…
Musings
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 as a “Brother”. Put together as a diary, it is an attempt to make sense of the tyranny of an individual. With the assistance of…
Social Crisis
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists?
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists? If you have the privilege to visit Warri, the former “oil city” of Nigeria in Delta State coastal Southern partand ask about the organisation that calls itself “Escravos,” it will not take you too long to find out who they are and where they assemble regularly. You…
Musings
Origins of an Opintar
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 Call It Morning I proclaim myself an Opintar sometimes. Opinterity is the closest I know to freedom and joy. It is part…
Social Relations
Rancour: An Ode to A Lost Oppressor
Rancour: An Ode to A Lost Oppressor When I nurse the hurts inflicted on me by friends and brothers within the spectre of brotherhood on so many occasions, it becomes a hard and fast law of my interaction to abhor it. Circumspection somehow replaces those he once trusted and bonded…