If I must die, I won’t die alone; I die with many children and their mothers, pregnant with babies who never yet had a voice. I die with the aspirations …
Lakunle Jaiyesimi
Lakunle Jaiyesimi
'Lakunle Jaiyesimi is a Pharmacist from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is a poet and dramatist. He is the creative consultant to Eniolu Creations, a multimedia outfit involved in numerous artistic productions, located in Lagos.
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In an article published in The Nation of Saturday, the 19th of March, 2011 with the above title, Yusuf Alli presented us with what one will aptly call the misinformed …
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Reports from bystanders at the recently concluded voter-registration exercise around the country have confirmed that the much-touted sanity in our electoral process is yet a mirage…
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With regards to a Computer being corrupted by Viruses, an active observer – even a passive onlooker- notices the similitude of a Corrupted Computer and a Corrupted Nigeria!
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Today, we are here recording the Rebirth of pride; the Rebirth of a lost civilization; the Rebirth of superiority of Africans, even after many years of being deliberately shrouded in …
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The season we are in is very much still appropriate to redeem the glory-past; except of course if we are content and would desire an extreme madhouse…
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How justified is decrying a coup against a President that heads an executive Council, which only marks time; waiting for the appropriate time to be conferred with a vote of …
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I hereby make public the news of the private death of a private man, who discovered the cure to AIDS; in the hope that when I discover an added cure …
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Who sings the songs of consolation to millions of unknown mothers whose Children are plucked off the face of the earth, who slump and die daily…
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At the moment of this writing, my brain throbs to fish out names of heroes, young and old, dead or alive, but what comes readily to me is an endless …
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What is most surprising and should form the crux of this piece is that those who profess the Christian faith with a puff of the chest, were the direct culprits …
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I plunder national resources. I embellish the treachery of my people with a well-trimmed moustache and cute face, fluent English, and a command of aristocracy. And I alter societal thinking …
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I have been hoping for a flourishing period, a better tomorrow. However, this is fast becoming a mirage, a tint in the sky…. I hope for a time when we all shall …
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In those days, when an undergraduate walked the streets, everybody rallied round him; the elders thronged him for the ever-involving intellectual debates and news about the latest discoveries, while the …
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Nobody cared to stop and ask what was amiss. She was being raped! Everybody kept up their pace; it was nobody’s home; she was nobody’s daughter; and it was nobody’s …
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