Like Nigeria's multiple-award winning poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, I am also “farmer-born, peasant-bred.” Like him, I “encountered dawn in the...

“The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter derision and dismissal of a life-and-death warning. And...

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I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful – Sylvia Plath, American poet and short...

Listen to Senator Bola Tinubu Wednesday last week in Abeokuta: “If you want to eat palm kernel, put a stone...

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He is a deity among scholars; we should have a shrine for him. There was nothing which the deified ancestors...