Tag: Sunny Awhefeada

  • Macaulay Mowarin @ 70! – By Sunny Awhefeada

    Macaulay Mowarin @ 70! – By Sunny Awhefeada

    Time does fly! The last five years brought this reality to me. I cannot now say whether this reality is a post-COVID-19 phenomenon or not. Somehow, after the menace of COVID-19, everything, including time, in my thinking became fleet-footed. Time has been flying and so do our age and lives. When the world crawled out

  • When is Nigeria’s April? – By Sunny Awhefeada

    When is Nigeria’s April? – By Sunny Awhefeada

    The month of April has been romanticized in literature and mythology as the beginning of rebirth. The month enjoys the archetypal character of hope embedded in renewal and geographers who tell about seasons configure it as the beginning of spring.

  • Okuama is no more! – By Sunny Awhefeada

    Okuama is no more! – By Sunny Awhefeada

    The above title reechoes a significant statement in the understanding of the disruptive essence of colonialism in Africa as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a novel which is crucial to the understanding of the African predicament. It was Obierika who told his audience including his great friend Okonkwo, “Abame is no more”.

  • Omotetobore and our vanishing names – By Sunny Awhefeada

    Omotetobore and our vanishing names – By Sunny Awhefeada

    Growing up, whether it was in Kadu­na, Ibadan, Evwreni or Ughelli, we were given indigenous names that reflected significance and wisdom. Some of our names were influenced by hap­penings and cultural nuances. A mere men­tion of such names evoked memories, good or bad, of such happenings. The generations before mine had even more profound and…