‘Penkelemes’ – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times The above is a corrupted form of ‘peculiar mess’ .…..or shall we say a Yoruba version? Adegoke Adelabu, a pre- independence politician who belonged to the NCNC had the copyright to that phrase. But I only referred to the phrase because what is happening in some states is nothing but PECULIAR…

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Sound Heritage! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch Today is the twenty first anniversary of Fela’s death. There are some things which we say unconsciously that turn out to be prophetic. Fela changed his surname from the colonially oriented Ransome-Kuti to Anikulapo-Kuti. He boasted then that he couldn’t die. Apparently, he himself did not know that it was not…

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