Abami Eda! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: IMDB A leta to Fela!! Dear Baba 70, I wan jollifficate with you on your eightieth birthday. You know say all de tins wey you sing about still dey happen for Nigeria, even Africa. Dem com dey yarn say you be prophet. Dem no know say na angel you be. Sebi dem tell…

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Nigeria’s Presidential pardon: another angle! – by Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: News Central TV So, Nigeria’s President has granted presidential pardon to 175 people and it’s raising quite a stir among critics. Let’s start with Herbert Macaulay the great, a nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist and musician, the Ogoni nine Ken Saro-Wiwa and co. and Major-General Mamman Vatsa who were all granted posthumous pardon.  In …

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Seniority! – Adewale Sobowale

I read someone’s complaints about their juniors, in school, who had stopped referring to them as ‘senior’. I decided to make this post in order to show, in the first place, that seniority is not for ever. Second, if a person didn’t misuse his ‘seniority’, he becomes an ‘egbon’, as older siblings are called. In…

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