My Name Follows Me is a story of the untold effects of names given to men on their initiation into fraternities. The story tells of Evo, a young man who unwittingly joins a university campus grown fraternity and finds himself in continual hopeless circumstances because of his new identity.
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Short Stories
Nathaniel Oyelola Rejects the Locker
Nathaniel Oyelola Rejects Davy Jones Locker A strange event floated into my quiet space like an aimless freak and stuns me harder than a shockwave. The indigo lights had come on indicating a great personality or deity is ready to visit Davy Jones Locker for some unpur knownpose or is…
Institutions
Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy
Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy There is a keen fascination among young men, most at leading schools and universities around the world, with the “captain-pirate” mode. Its germ is of rebellion or disobedience against the injustices and excesses of the status quo in society. It is not surprising. The literal meaning…
Culture as Institution
Yankius on Ogboni Society
Yankius on Ogboni Society Alagba Aligbi: Yankiomelogbish! How now? You self na hard man O! Person no dey see your headlight again. Are you okay? Yankius: Gba Gbi,nothing do me. Anytime I see you na something you find come. Can I help you? Alagba Aligbi: I been dey go my…
Social Crisis
Sowore: On Pyrates Confraternity
Sowore: On Pyrates Confraternity Comment: Over the past six years I have written several articles about the wrongs and decadence of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGF) (some deleted) with insider knowledge. I more recently even developed two essay series out of them, namely, Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria and The Leadership, Bad Brother (both…
Social Crisis
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 12
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 12 “We are bigger than U.S. Steel” several members of UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities) in Nigeria will tell you, with aplomb, about their “brotherhood”. Do not take such folly serious. It is evidence the ‘mask of sanity’ fraternities have fallen off the cliff that…
Social Crisis
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery?
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 11 – Slavery? To be in a UCGF (University Campus Grown Fraternity) member in 2017 under the terms and conditions they operate in recent times is unusual. Of their free will, you become a slave unless you are a “Slave Master” or his favoured client….
Social Crisis
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: 9 – Silencing
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: 9 – Silencing The existence, approaches, and attitudes of the UCGF in every day matters as well as unusual ones are bifurcated in many senses. Probably the worst form of bifurcation most visible is the conduct of the leadership of UCGFs in their attitudes towards…
Social Crisis
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 5 B – Hoppers
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria: Part 5 B – Hoppers In FAVIN (Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria) Part 5 (see: http://wp.me/p1bOKH-pT) the issue articulated was the interactions between Cheaters, Grudgers and Suckers in perpetual selfish game. That is, within the membership constitution of UCGFs (University Campus Grown Fraternities). See Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. From keener…
Social Crisis
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 8 – Bailiffs
Fraternities are Viruses in Nigeria 8 – Bailiffs Fraternities in Nigeria are now specialists in accumulating “financial bounties” with their leaders appropriating them; it is tantamount to corporate malfeasance. It may be unfortunate if not tragic that the founders of University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGFs) established them them noble intentions….