Photo credit; the Week A Yoruba proverb says, if a person’s punishment is imminent, wherever they maybe, they will travel to go receive it. So is it with Brijesh Mishra, a travel agent in Jalandhar, India who travelled all the way to Canada to meet his Waterloo. CBC News reports that Mishra pleaded guilty to…
Photo credit: medium The Biafra secession was declared precisely fifty years ago. Most people are aware of what led to that action. While it lasted, the Igbo suffered so much. At the end of the day, General Ojukwu had to flee. He was possibly acting in accordance to a reggae song, ‘He who fights and…
I am going through a feverish period. Since there is no one with me, I just started toying with various things which my illness might result into. If one is going to meet his God, he should not lie. OK! I was thinking of the grim reaper, death. The Yoruba even celebrate death by referring…
Once upon a – not too long ago – time, one olori ebi had to retire. You know life is just like the army barracks. Soldiers go and soldiers come, but the barracks remain! Even before the predecessor left office, the successor’s name had been announced. Now, there were so many anti-people things that were…
Photo credit: Life Wherever you go! A narrow long pathLeads to heavenWhile road to hellIs well fed! Gogogongo! So the Good Book saysIt surely paysTo be truthfulIn order to be fruitful! Wherever you be! Truth is constantLike northern starWalking our talkDoesn’t make people fall! Sisi Eko Whatever we doWherever we goAlways be fairEven in the…
Photo credit: the Guardian Sol Mamakwa a First Nations lawmaker in Ontario has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, an Indigenous language. The Guardian reports that it as being historic because it repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on Indigenous languages. Mamakwa who belongs to the New Democratic party is from the community of Kingfisher Lake…
