Photo credit: Daily Trust Professor Wole Soyinka’s Abeokuta country home combines simplicity with love for nature, creating a therapeutic effect on the owner and guests From a distance, the house, built of a combination of burnt clay brick, red Nigerite roofing sheets and concrete pillars, lies prostrate like a lion. Under the smiting equatorial sunlight,…
Photo credit: Britannica He is already an elderly man.Is he?He is eighty three years old! If we really look at his activities, he must have lived up to ten lifetimes. Is it the mysterious gunman story we should talk about?Is it his intervention in the Biafran crisis which earned him solitary detention for almost two…
Photo credit: BBC I commiserate with fellow Egbas and our guests over the floods which happened today. I’m comforting those who lost their relatives to the deadly floods. I know it’s so painful to lose loved ones, particularly unnecessarily. But who are we to question God? Of course, so many people lost properties, but let’s…
Photo credit: Shutterstock People with sense,Won’t ever touch,Next level! EvenWith ten-foot pole! Erin ka releO wa j’Oba!Erin yeye,Erin yeye! Not my people,With theirEducated povertyThey would ratherCall bull buodaTo partake Erin kareleO wa j’ObaErin yeyeErin yeye! Yeah!To partake,Even in theMost miserlyOf crumbs,Of their ownCommonwealth! Erin kareleO wa j’Oba!Erin yeyeErin yeye! Discipline is it,Leading toQuiet, even ofThe…
Photo credit: Daily Post The sad loss of Pa Fasoranti’s daughter, like all other unnecessary deaths, is most regrettable. May God comfort all those who have lost their loved ones to the terrorists. But one thing that keeps troubling me is the reaction of the presidency to this particular untimely death. Why is it that…
Photo credit: Leonardo Cendamo Did you know he was offered the presidency of Nigeria after the deaths of the butcher and MKO? Was he not the one who allegedly held up the radio station at Ibadan and told SLA in an announcement that he should go? Was he not the one that visited Ojukwu before…
Photo credit: Facebook When I left Nigeria in 2018, the only book I took with me was “You Must Set Forth at Dawn,” by Wole Soyinka. Incidentally, I bought the book at the OOPL Abeokuta for a sum that set me back by some thousands of naira. Looking at the book now, I’m seeing where…
