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By: Bamijoko Favour The Backdrop It is nothing but tragic how Ibadan collapsed from the status it acquired in the mid-twentieth century as the literary empire of not just Nigeria, but of West Africa, to its current state where it is only tottering on its way to find substantial literary […]

Credit: The Visual Authors By: Favour Bamijoko  To be frank, there is perhaps no other place, or institution, in any society where you can find a readily available cultural powerhouse than in our Universities. With 1.8 million undergraduate students and 242 thousand postgraduate students, according to a 2018 evaluation by […]

By: Favour Bamijoko  With little to no holiday between last semester — with its daunting facets on all sides — and the commencement of a new semester, as students, we can barely say we are enthusiastic about resumption. The emotional baggage from last semester that many bear has enough potential […]

By: Favour Bamijoko Like many “Owanbe”, this marriage — the Marriage of Anansewa — happened on Saturday (the 24th of August, 2024). But unlike many Owanbe, this one, staged at the Wole Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan, is set in the post-colonial, and pre-contemporary cultural life of Ghana. Originally published […]

By: Favour Bamijoko It was on Sunday, an inferior, melancholic atmosphere. The weather was, for the most part, if not throughout, unimpressively dull. For some days, it had rained ceaselessly, and even on Sunday, it rained — but only briefly. So, the fear I had about a sudden rainfall compromising […]

By: Bamijoko Favour In July 2015, two students, Habeeb Kolade and Dolapo Amusat came together to start a collective, UITES WRITE, publishing electronic anthologies to their mention. The goal of UITES WRITE was to create a “platform to showcase literary work by University of Ibadan students and alumni” by creating […]

By: Bamijoko Favour For the man, everything is perhaps an endless chain of enactments. Only few Africans, in modern times, have enacted a life seemingly larger-than-life like the man, Wole Soyinka. And, as far as Soyinka’s theatrics and enactments are concerned, anywhere is his stage — school, a radio station, […]

By – Bamijoko Favour With over 28 KM in-between, every inch of the road, from the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, to Gbemisola Street, in Ikeja, was overwhelmed with close to two million people, as they trekked, within whiffs and clouds of marijuana smoke, just to put to rest the […]