Migrants on Diego Garcia offered move to UK!
Photo credit: BBC Tamil Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been held for more than three years on the Island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago, which is currently under colonial rule by the British Indian Island Territory Administration, will be offered the opportunity to transfer to the UK. LEIGH DAY reports that it…
Iranian woman nearly strips into birthday suit at university!
Photo credit: Arise News A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. CNN reports that the woman sitting outside the university in her underwear, with her hair uncovered, gestured to her fellow students….
Echoes from my immediate past!
Adewale Sobowale I got a friend request yesterday. It was from a former student of mine. Who am I not to have immediately accepted the request? After accepting the request, I settled down to do this and that. In the latish hours, while jejely obeying the panegyric of my roots, Omo oru laa sika; Taa…
Trump as Metaphor! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Forbes The presidential election of the United States is rounding to a close. But whoever wins, let’s look at the Trumpish character and consider whether or not he has done anything extraordinary. First, the fact that he could rise to become president of what we thought was the greatest democratic space in the…
Pregnant With Meaning! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Shutterstock Like I always say, it doesn’t matter if I’m the last man standing on what I perceive to be the truth. I’m sure, sooner or later, – with emphasis on sooner – it will be apparent to most right thinking people. In my elementary school days, the African mother tongues were derogatively…
State of Nature? – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: Nairametrics One is normally piqued at the disturbing news that come out of Nigeria. It’s a given that the government is not doing enough to care for the people. I say this because that’s what they’re elected(?) to do. But then are we, the people, not complicit in where we’ve found ourselves? I…