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Of Shettima, Cows And Goats

Written by Festus Adedayo Yoruba have a solemn way of expressing disgust with vacuity. Wherever elders look forward, in huge expectation, that a respected person would utter words of knowledge - ogbon but its antonym – ago…

Lamidi Apapa’s Missing Cap

By Festus Adedayo Turbulent anger of Obidients landed on Lamidi Apapa last week. By the time their anger petered out, Apapa had lost his cap to a God-knows-who. Esu Elegbara, the trickster deity of the Yoruba people, it will…

Atiku’s Irreversible Blunders

By abiodun KOMOLAFE There is a Yoruba adage, which says that ‘ogbon odun yii, were emii ni.' (The wisdom of this year is foolishness in the course of time). Talking philosophically, when one relies on an older matrix to work in…