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Japa is not for me, and Im not even in the mood to pay an ordinary visit to any foreign country no matter how some Nigerians venerate that countrys national currency. I have spoken!
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A covert level of influence peddling lurks just beneath the surface of public discourse in academia, which is subject to what have been called “greenmail” endowments designed to legitimize one side of a debate or the other. It has badly infected my field of study and my role in exposing it may help to explain why my teaching career has been spent mostly outside Canada.
All the demented facets of Nigerian life today, from brazen kidnappings and robberies to rampant prostitution and political heists, are like the many wonderful tales of Cyprian Odiatu Duaka (COD) Ekwensi, who died on November 4, 2007. Cyprian Ekwensi lived a charmed life as a pathfinder in the annals of African literature and it is […]