UCGFs Archives - Grimot Nane Zine

Laggers, Men & Schoolboys The label “lagger” is subject to misuse and thoroughly abused within university campus grown fraternities. It was a label intended by early leaders to correct the…

Culture as Institution Social Crisis

Ancestors: No Friend No Foe

Grimot Nane Zine 30/07/2025 No Comments

Ancestors: No Friend No Foe No Friend No Foe (NFNF) is a brave-faced fraternal claim someone hears just before they receive a punishment. It implies no matter how good you…

Short Stories UCGFs

My Name Follows Me

Grimot Nane Zine 04/12/2021 No Comments

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…

Short Stories UCGFs

Nathaniel Oyelola Rejects the Locker

Grimot Nane Zine 05/06/2021 4 Comments

Nathaniel Oyelola Rejects Davy Jones Locker A strange event floats into my quiet space like an aimless freak and stuns me harder than a shock-wave. Damn! I was not expecting…

Culture as Institution Social Crisis UCGFs

Fraternities Are Viruses In Nigeria 13

Grimot Nane Zine 08/08/2020 1 Comment

Fraternities Are Viruses In Nigeria 13 – The Disintegration The leading University Campus Grown Fraternities (UCGF) have had a long run of durability in their existence. Like many glorified dictatorships,…

Institutions

Pirate-Captain Entities and Democracy

Grimot Nane Zine 06/06/2018 1 Comment

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…