28B – Adewale Sobowale

28b, how can I ever forget you? Was it not in you I spent childhood? I can still remember the adults drinking lager when I was a toddler. Mind you, it would be after the day’s work. Olori or Baba or Baba Wa was so generous. He never discriminated. I can remember Luke, the Igbo…

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Rapeversary! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Marriage Matters Her eyes are misty! Why won’t they be! From the social media, to her friends and family, everyone has been commenting on the trending rape allegations. This has opened up the pains she thought she had successfully buried. The seventeen year-old virgin and a pastor! Hmmm….she was ten years older and…

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Me Too! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: The Conversation There’s recently been some recounting of the gory details of, mainly, sexual harassment by some randy pastors. But when we really look at it, it’s not only pastors that engage in such acts. A lot happens within the academic community, the civil service, the business world, and so on. We were…

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Customer Dada Ni – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: National Assembly, Nigeria I tend to wonder what stuff Nigerians are made of. Must we make a mountain out of every molehill? For something as minor as the federal legislators subtracting and adding, we have started shouting again. Must we! Instead of praising those distinguished senators and eminent members of the house for…

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Itire!!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Business Day Most of my childhood and relatively innocent days were spent at Itire. Itire of those days was a sleepy community in the backwaters of Musin and Lawanson. Musin was known for its market places and notorious for its aluta tradition. Lawanson on its own part was a pathway to civilisation as…

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