Subsea Retreat Extended There is something that makes you jazz into my island, O my Cap’n Another visit to Davy Jones Locker, you are welcome There is something that makes you jazz into my island, O Tortuga I am surely still piping onboard a rough Island, with my samba There…
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Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him
Celebrating Cap’n Blood’s Birthday with Him Yesterday, as I was making octopus pepper soup, I had a sip of seaweed kinkana, a mild alcoholic spirit. Paramole had given me the recipe to make the still when he returned from the Great Gangway. The Davy Jones Locker rendezvous was quiet, cold,…
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Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth?
Did Wole Soyinka Blame the Nigerian Youth? Recently, Wole Soyinka, wrote a speech or article titled “Where Did We Go Wrong?” It mentions a list of the very youthful ages of the Nigerian leaders and pioneers in the immediate post-colonial era. The wordings then adores the colonial youth of as…
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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…
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Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning
Wole Soyinka and Forgiveness For Mourning The man, Wole Soyinka is forgiving and commuting personally designed punitive sanctions once again. And in the most “magnanimous” and “solemn” of ways. Wole Soyinka is a great man. Soyinka is neither God Almighty, a spiritual leader (except within the National Association of Seadogs…
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Oshiomhole: Swiss Account Socialism
Oshiomhole: Swiss Account Socialism When the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced an increase in fuel price, it was steep. From N87 to N145 litre of petrol. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) reacted. NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, did what Comrade Adams Oshiomhole would have unfailingly done in the same…
Yankius on Stealing by Messages
Pepper Rest: O Boy, I just love intelligent men. The kind intelligence I don start to regard the most na the one when a man go dey use thieves to take get whatever he want for life without having to steal himself. Yankius: If na Buhari matter you wan take start this evening…
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Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0
Obasanjo 3 Soyinka 0 The bickering between Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and ex-President Gen Olusegun Obasanjo (Rtd) continues. Sometimes simmering, sometimes crackling, it will never cease. There is no love lost between the two men. Obasanjo is the hedgehog and Soyinka is the fox if one uses Isaiah Berlin’s understanding…
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Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness 3
Wole Soyinka and Military Forgiveness 3 In a most unspectacular reinvention “moment”, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has publicly declared not only his “forgiveness” but the endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari. He has affectionately called Buhari a “born again” and a “new phenomenon”. Every man has a right to change his…
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Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness?
Wole Soyinka and Traditional Forgiveness? After innumerable citizens indigenous to Lagos and the South-West region in Nigeria roundly criticised traditional ruler Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos. For his unfortunate ‘warning to the Igbos.’ One should be impressed that there is hope in Nigeria even though not immediately convincing. The…
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