What is the indigenous African view on polygyny? Let’s take the Yoruba example, which is found in this Ifa verse.Please pay attention to the details: Ọ̣̀kan ṣoṣo péré lobìnrín dùn mọ nílé ọkọ(Only one wife is desirable in a man’s house) Tí wọ́n bá di méjì wọn a dòjòwú(Once there are two, they get envious)…
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has visited Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At the negotiations, he warned that Israel’s going forward to attack Rafah might lead to a global ostracisation. Meanwhile, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smpotrich has announced the seizure of 800 hectares of Palestine land in the occupied West…
Val Sacilik is fighting against anti-migrant rhetoric in Bolu, northwestern Turkey. Bolu, who lost his arm in prison during a police raid after a hunger strike in 2000, has turned three decades of social activism into a fight against anti-migrant sentiment. He stands for the pro-Kurdish Dem (People’s Equality and Democratic Party). He wants to…
De people of Haiti wey don japa dey talk say de gang violence for dem kontiri dey shook dem for bodi. Situation for de country don wowo so stay over 1 million people don leave. As den dey call den family wey still dey, den no happy for de information wey den dey get. Den…
Should we blame our destiny?Should we blame our laziness?Should we blame our never say die attitude?Should we blame our sticking to tribalism? Why is it that out of all our people,we’ve not been able to findgood people to rule us? Is there no good personin our country?Are the politiciansbewitching us? Before we blame others,could we…
This will make it the third time that I will be writing on what has perhaps, and sadly too, become a trending issue in our society. Suicide! I decided to write again because some sections of our society are sadistically finding it funny. They are wondering why other people are now copycatting that unfortunate act….
Many of us have heard the word chutzpah used in terms of a person having positive audacity. But I bet only a few realize it could be used to describe people who display negative audacity. There are some positions which are normally reserved for the elderly. Senior citizens are often expected to have experienced the…
