A Cow’s Diary! – Adewale Sobowale

We enjoyed some respite yesterday. The sons of men said they were celebrating a festival. Lisabi Festival! It was a really grand event. Early in the morning, they went to the grove where they offered the annual sacrifice. They later went to the palace for merriment. However, one outstanding practice that we cows noticed was…

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Learning Right – Adewale Sobowale

At their feetWhile being feed-ed! With right,not that White-Influenced history,which is oppositewhat really happenedto our ancestorswhile laboring,slaving out their sweats!Sufferingas slavesafter being sold outby African chiefs,who were influencedby mirrorsand gin andeven cowry shells.We were mis-educated!Mungo ParkDiscoveredRiver NigerYeah!African people wereNot reckoned withMadam TinubuKosoko @AS 03/04/22

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The migrants in the ancient forest

Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish corder, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. The New Yorker reports that Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home…

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Trump’s Iran gambit: A strategic quagmire with no clear exit!

Photo credit: NDTV The Trump administration’s military intervention against Iran has evolved from a presumed swift demonstration of force into a deepening strategic quagmire.  Yeni Safak reports that initial assumptions underpinning the campaign – that intensive aerial bombardment would paralyze Iran’s military capacity and that internal dissent would trigger popular uprisings – have collided with battlefield realities.  Tehran has maintained its retaliatory capabilities,…

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Canada urges diplomatic solution in Iran!

Photo credit: Toronto Star Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada would like to see a diplomatic solution to the ear in Iran, even as Canada has expressed support for the US military attack that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday. Toronto Today reports that Anand, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly cancelled his scheduled…

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