Africa is blessed with varied languages and cultures, but her diversity has never been transformed into richness. She has been bleeding since she was fragilized by the colonial system and its post-colonial mismanagement. The blatancy of her fragility is so aberrant that she cannot even define her stand on issues like literature and religion. She has been so dealt with that she ignores how to value her cultures and languages. In his…
Nigerian musicians are full of surprises. They sing in all sorts of languages, ranging from the vernaculars through pidgin to well-polished English. But what is easily ignored is that there is a symbiosis between their music and our social norms. They interact in such a way that each one of them influences the other. Society tries to adapt to what they propose to her, and the musicians also try to adjust their…
One of the greatest way to teach kids is through poems. I hope to propose few of them, in Children’s Corner, with time for children’s consumption. Watch out for the series. They might be the ones your kids already know but repetition, they say, is the mother of science. Help them to learn it, if possible by heart and see the effects with time. THE CLOCK “Tick,” says the clock,…
