Commongini? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit; The Guardian Oh, sleazebags!Feeding off plebs.CommonwealthMisappropriated. Land full ofMilk and honey.Masses sufferingPerpetual hunger. When NEPA worksWe’re not lighted.Nurse and dokitaFleeing like Andrew. Roads turned to mines,Diamond to extract.Foods, when cheap,Moneyless pockets. Lost but found,Airport – dollars!Ikoyi – pounds!Kaduna – euro! Until we ruleOurselves justlyShall we be fooledPerpetually too!!! @as 050218

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Calling A Bluff! – Adewale Sobowale

It’s so nice demanding people to walk their talk. Of course, people in Nigeria must be used to politicians who would promise heaven on earth before election only to keep themselves prisoners in the government house after election. Don’t mind my giving a political example but it’s my belief that we either stand for something…

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Voices From Childhood – Adewale Sobowale

Having encountered some faces from my childhood on FB, I tend to dispute the saying that ‘twenty children do not play for twenty years’. In my sixth decade on earth, I have been lucky to ‘reknow’ these fine gentlemen and ladies. Of course, some of us are already grandpas and grandmas. One is even a…

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Did We? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: BBC I’m most concerned about how Nigerians lost the second republic to General Buhari! While his becoming a ‘democratically imposed’ president has shown he never had any good plan for Nigeria, it wouldn’t be fair to him to put all the blames on Buhari. In the first instance, we were in a learning…

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FELA by Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: The Leadership When he changed his name from what he perceived to be a slave name, Ransome, to Anikulapo, we thought he did not know what he was talking about, but then events proved him right. The truth is that he has simply refused to die! When we consider the immense popularity AfroBeats…

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