Tag: Nature
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Myanmar quake toll overshoots 1,000 as rescuers dig for survivors
The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for survivors. The shallow 7.7-magnitude quake struck northwest of the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar in the early afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude…
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Nature and realism in Tony Frisby’s Van Gogh and the Colours of Love – Theophilus Ejorh
Theophilus Ejorh Publisher: Panda Publishing Publication Date: 2019 Pages: 69 The first valuable thing about Van Gogh and the Colours of Love is the explanatory introductions for most poems in the collection. The notes are attention-grabbing and provide robust insights into the events, objects, or moments that inspired the poems. They also…
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When nature came calling, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. We may not be able to prevent nature in the form of cyclones and other disasters from calling uninvited because it is like the wide chested gorilla that insists on being your son-in-law even when you did not give him your daughter in mariage. However, given advances in science, in almost all…
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Fathers and Nuns: Battling with nature and celibacy, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. When I was an undergraduate in the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, one of our teachers (not lecturer) was the famous Ugandan writer, Okot P’Bitek author of best sellers like ‘Song of Lawino’ and ‘Song Of A Prisoner.’ We had two Nuns in the class and quite often, P’Bitek who came to class,…