A Lot Of Ado! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times What’s all this fretting about in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. I’m referring to the rumpus between the wife of the former governor who happened to have died and the state government. I’m not apportioning blames to anyone simply because I see the katakata as nothing but medicine after death. The…

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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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