Petrichor! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Yogohara Oh yeah!Let it rain!Inhumanity, man to man!Rains are waiting,Oceans consume debris! Ojo nro!Sere nnu’le!Mawo’nu ojo!Ki aso re!Ma ba tutu!Ki otutuMaba mu e! The churches,Our mosques,Plus shrines,New life need! Ojo nro, etc Leaders, their leadersAwakening need!Our people toIdentify with! Ojo nro, etc Rat needs being ratty!Bird to chirp!Humans needBeing men again! Ojo nro,…

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The Veil! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch About two weeks ago, I came back to Abeokuta around ten thirty in the night. What I saw that night was unbecoming. I felt it happened because I came back so late in the night. Tonight, I came back some sixty minutes earlier at nine thirty. The situation was only slightly…

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Social Change! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Pulse Nigeria It’s no secret that I crave Nollywood movies as well as real African music. The fact that most of the practitioners are acquiring education is particularly enchanting. There’s no doubting the fact that the industries are changing. However, methinks we should begin to think of appealing to our people through those…

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Baawiism! – Adewale Sobowale

Society creates a variety of people. There are some who resign themselves to faith even when they do know they are better than the rulers. To criticize such leadership is a taboo for them. But there is always a minority that’s sincerely repulsed by crass in high places. As far as this particular group is…

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