One day, I eventually summoned the courage to go baby visiting. For a long time, I had avoided this task. The realisation that my female friends were becoming proud mothers had depressed me greatly, if irrationally. Despite the joy motherhood had brought to them, I (being organically younger) did not appreciate the sudden obligations of … Continue reading
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THE UNCRITICAL CITIZENS | An Analysis by Ayo Sogunro
Introduction During the dark and heady days of Occupy Nigeria in January of 2012, a roadblock was mounted by some community citizen protesters at Pako, a minor junction that connected the traffic from the Yaba, Somolu and Bariga axis. As was my irregular practice in those days, I would first stop to provide some moral … Continue reading
THE NIGERIANS THEY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT—A Rejoinder by Ayo Sogunro
“They” in this title refers to all the defense men, the pen-brandishing king’s men, the unrelenting, self-appointed applauders, the cozy and established, comfortable, myopic and collective children of corruption, the distant crowd of Presidential addicts, the any-government-in-power cinema crowd of Nigeria, who seem to be in competition among themselves to achieve the favours of President Goodluck Jonathan. … Continue reading
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