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Daily Archives: February 28, 2014

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Posted on February 28, 2014 by ayosogunro • 6 Comments

[a first flurry of text] [fingers: at rest] [thinking] [thinking] [someone: “What are you doing?”] [ambient noise fills the evening] [listening] [listening] [inspiration stays displayed on a blank face] [blank words gather with the evening’s pace] [spaces] [spaces] [s p a c e s] [               ] Continue reading →

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THE PARADOXICAL LIFESTYLE OF THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN IS THE SUM OF THIS BOOK... My relentless pursuit of an understanding of the survival abilities of the average Nigerian in a system that is definitely dysfunctional. Some of us complain, some of us protest, some of us go spiritual and still many others go material, and also a few of us turn to the arts for solace—we write, not to cure other people of madness, but to avoid going mad ourselves…

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