Tag: Promise Adiele
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The victims of APC and PDP reign – By Promise Adiele
Isidore Okpewho’s novel The Victims conveys all the soul-wrenching, tragic trappings of conquered people under the scorching atmosphere of polygamy. It would not have mattered much if the tragedy in the novel descended on the reprobate harbingers of flame and furnace, namely – Obanua and his mother Ma Nwojide. But the knowledge that the tragic…
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Beyond the politics of endorsement – By Promise Adiele
The innocuous word ‘endorsement’ presently enjoys celebrity status in Nigerian politics. ‘Endorsement’, hitherto prevalent in the register of advertisement where persons of appreciable popularity approve of a product, has surreptitiously crept into Nigeria’s political lexicon. Unlike in
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Questions for Aisha Buhari – By Promise Adiele
Titubi’s character in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun attracts different interpretations from many people across the world. The ebullient daughter of the wealthy Alhaja Kabirat, leader of the market women, commits class suicide by repudiating the ideals of her class and identifying with the poor struggling, impoverished farmers.
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Tinubu: Should Nigerians really shut up? – By Promise Adiele
Nigeria’s god of literature, Wole Soyinka needs no elaborate introduction. His evident literary flourishes underscore a deep mastery of the English language which he eminently utilizes to address socio-political conditions in his native Nigeria and across the world. He has, several times, confronted misrule, urging the economic weary, downtrodden masses to stand up against bad…
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I know why the Obidients are angry – By Promise Adiele
One of the challenges of teaching African-American Literature is dealing with the emotional trauma of how writers depict the vices of rape, extreme racial abuse, injustice, murder, vicious class dichotomy, bestiality and the debasement of the human body in the recommended texts. To drive home their messages, African-American literature writers always portray soul-wrenching, disembowelling scenes…
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Peter Obi: Nigeria’s Beacon of Hope – By Promise Adiele
Overwhelming excitement. Sheer euphoria mixed with anger. Ecstatic frenzy sustained by passionate commitment. That is the story of Nigeria’s current revolution predicated on the ideology of omniscient humanitarianism. Peter Obi is the proponent of that ideology and millions of Obidients are the protagonists. Make no mistakes about it, there is a battle for the soul…
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ASUU strike: How are lecturers surviving? – By Promise Adiele
According to Chinua Achebe, “proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten”. Thus, Achebe underscores the importance of proverbs as an emblematic paradigm in spoken and written communicative strategies. Proverbs are powerful. They constitute vestiges of the fast receding African identity. There is no ethnic group in Africa that does not have proverbs…
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Kashim Shettima and the muse of revelation – By Promise Adiele
Art is a realm of knowledge characterized by intricate, interwoven, overlapping dependencies which can only be accessed by a few people. The muse is inexorably located in the exalted realm of art. However, the uninitiated, owing to obvious limitations, is content with guesswork and sterile justification of misplaced muse which sometimes calls to question the…
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2023 Election: Buhari’s opportunity to win – By Promise Adiele
I have always argued for the possibility of comprehending the incomprehensible which, in its fervent, can negate every iota of determined cognition. The incomprehensible is that which cannot be understood even by the most cerebral among us. Further attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible and explain it has turned people of letters into propagators of blithe…
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Sanni Abacha: The science of looting – By Promise Adiele
Nigeria’s late maximum ruler, General Sanni Abacha has become an enigma in death. He may have died but lives on. Like the dual character in Athol Fugard’s play Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Sizwe Bansi metaphorically dies but continues to live as Robert Zwelinzima. Since Abacha died in 1998, he has lived as a part financier…