Ogede Nbaje! – Adewale Sobowale

So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….

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And, I Cried! – Adewale Sobowale

I’d always considered myself a strong man. Now, I had usually been surrounded by women. Yeah! On my maternal side, apart from mom, I had this troika of grandmas. One was Mama Ghana. She was my biological grandmother. A no nonsense woman, she didn’t have the time for my shenanigans. She called a spade its…

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Diary of a cow! – Adewale Sobowale

Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today’s International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an unfavourable understatement. This…

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Stateless! – Adewale Sobowale

Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…

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F’ope Fun! – Adewale Sobowale

I was at a naming ceremony today. To say I wasn’t the happiest will be an understatement of the year. The parents are so-called Christians. Why I doubt their Christianity will soon be apparent. By the way, I used to think it was only the Pentecostal churches that weren’t doing things the way we used…

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