I wrote this fictionalized letter – most of it is true, anyway – sometime ago to support the campaign against food wastage. Read. Enjoy. Feel free to share (with credits). Above all, become an “evangelist.” Dearest Mom, I write to thank you for bringing me up never to waste food. I’d like to start with a […]
If you ran a poll for the best secondary schools in Nigeria, mine in Ota Ogun state would likely not get a mention. So when people who attended big-name schools start to brag, I simply console myself that such a supposedly bad school as Ansar-Ud-Deen (AUD) Comprehensive College, Ota, made me and was, in fact, where I
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Genre: Fiction Publisher: Origami Books [Parrésia Publishers Ltd], Lagos Year: 2014 Captivity should never be given a positive spin, except the captor is a writer and the “victim” is the reader. Every writer hopes to be a “captor” (or better yet, a captivator), but not all succeed. Of those that succeed, only a few are
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Today, my pinging machine spoke louder than before The language of the Marxist opium Parody of faith Parasite of literature DP: A religious banner One Flesh Ministry Int’l Marriage is Possible Conference Theme: My Spouse has Gone Mad Again Literature breathes life even resurrects religion Pastor is Soyinka-ed Congregation lost Secular scholasticism sources sacredness
If you are banished to a desert where you are allowed to take only one thing, what will it be? Research has shown that many present-day Nigerians would go with either their television, radio or blackberry. The percentage of those that would go there with a book would be the least. No wonder it is
and the chain was not… and the doom was not the end of the beginning the beginning of the end, like a spell, it ravaged us the shackling of freedom the mind is encaged we are plagued by the hailstone of curses and the chain was not the furious flight of freedom is closely far
If you are banished to a desert where you are allowed to take only one thing, what will it be? Research has shown that many present-day Nigerians would go with either their television, radio or blackberry. The percentage of those that would go there with a book would be the least. No wonder it is
Literature, no matter how abstract it might be, always has a root in real life; no wonder literature is said to be a slice life. Turning and turning in the widening gyre of life, there are bound to be ups and downs and how these ups and downs are managed would determine how successful or