The Egbas are celebrating the Lisabi festival today. Actually, it has been a week long affair culminating in today’s grand finale. I gather a visit will be made to the Lisabi forest, the men’s cult, oro will come out and when it comes out, women must be indoors. T’obinrin ba foju k’oroOro a gbe. A…
There is a new vogue among males and a few females now. I mean our youth and quite a number of the elderly. A big investor in the new vogue, when he was interviewed by journalists, called it the new stock exchange for the masses. A participant says it is better than oil and gas….
We enjoyed some respite yesterday. The sons of men said they were celebrating a festival. Lisabi Festival! It was a really grand event. Early in the morning, they went to the grove where they offered the annual sacrifice. They later went to the palace for merriment. However, one outstanding practice that we cows noticed was…
The kindness of the Nigerian government has been reinforced with the donation of a whopping $1 milion dollars to Afghanistan. Mind you, it wasn’t donated to the United Nations, Unicef or the Red Cross. Rather, the small amount of money was donated to the Taliban Government of the country. We should all give kudos to…
At their feetWhile being feed-ed! With right,not that White-Influenced history,which is oppositewhat really happenedto our ancestorswhile laboring,slaving out their sweats!Sufferingas slavesafter being sold outby African chiefs,who were influencedby mirrorsand gin andeven cowry shells.We were mis-educated!Mungo ParkDiscoveredRiver NigerYeah!African people wereNot reckoned withMadam TinubuKosoko @AS 03/04/22
Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish corder, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. The New Yorker reports that Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home…
Photo credit: NDTV The Trump administration’s military intervention against Iran has evolved from a presumed swift demonstration of force into a deepening strategic quagmire. Yeni Safak reports that initial assumptions underpinning the campaign – that intensive aerial bombardment would paralyze Iran’s military capacity and that internal dissent would trigger popular uprisings – have collided with battlefield realities. Tehran has maintained its retaliatory capabilities,…
