By Yinka Fabowale O jina o, kibo! O yo gende. Li kobo y’omo, yo’ya O yo dede ule Mi le nikan je tan o E wa ba mi ra! Every dusk, the call went up, usually as the hour approached seven o’clock. With the crier’s sonorous sing-song Remo dialect inflection, it pierces the night’s falling […]
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By Oyeyinka Oludayisi Fabowale “In Kumuyi: Defender of the Faith, you have the spherical, stirring and spicy story of a multi-faceted and quintessential cleric many in Nigeria and the global community have always longed to know more intimately. Not told elsewhere before, the presentations amount to a faithful account of this unique man… No aspect […]
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To read Onyeka Onwenu’s autobiography is to be a fly on the wall completely absorbed in multilayered intimate conversations with her about a thoroughly fascinating life. It transports the reader from the joys of a relatively privileged childhood in pre-Civil War Port Harcourt to the traumatic death of her father in a car crash before […]
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By Lola Fabowale “Men are still the most important instrument in the art of war [be that spiritual, emotional, psychological or physical]. Without them other machines, equipment and instruments of war are useless, no matter how sophisticated”.—Olusegun Obasanjo In My Command: An Account of The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970: p. 97. Introduction Save for the […]
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Author: Olatunbosun Isijola Pages: 380 A Review by Ajose Kudehinbu, NPOM, former Head of Service (HoS) Ondo State Heroes and Icons, by Olatunbosun Isijola, if I remember, is the first of any such publication on Ondo State, including to a large extent, Ekiti State carved out in 1996. The book is a chronicle of data, […]
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By Lola Fabowale The book, Why We Struck, by Late Major Adewale Ademoyega, gives a gripping account of the inside dynamics of Nigeria’s first coup and its aftermath. The book challenges the previously widely held view that the January 1966 coup was ethnically-motivated rather than inspired by nationalistic and revolutionary considerations. Rather, it contends that […]
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By Abiodun Adeniyi ‘The making of the Nigerian Flagship: A story of The Guardian’ is an expository genre, revealing the significant history of The Guardian Newspapers thirty-eight years after its establishment. Co-written by two of the newspapers’ pioneer journalists, Aaron Ukodie and O’Seun Ogunseitan, the book is a brilliant compromise between an edited work, pulling together a writhe […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu “Graphoanalysis of Wole Soyinka’s Signature” is an 11-page-monograph (2019 Edition) written by Ben Ezeohagwu…meant to examine and reveal personality traits, attitudes and behavioural patterns of Wole Soyinka. It is expected to stimulate readers’ interest in this human science of Graphoanalysis and also as a tool to appreciate the relevance of Graphoanalysis in […]
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By Oyeyinka Fabowale “The Elusive Search for Nation Nigeria.” That is the title of Aare Afe Babalola’s recently published book, one of a set presented to the public at the last convocation ceremony of his prestigious institution, the Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD). One comes to the end of reading the 343-page book, however, wondering […]
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By Yinka Fabowale “Iwe yin yii…o po ju owo e lo” meaning”: “This your magazine is worth more than the price.” That is the confession by a friend after running through the contents of the latest edition of Newspeak Magazine. My friend, a former senior government official in Oyo State, who I have longed known […]
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