By: Bamijoko Favour Image Credits: Vogue Quite interestingly, the students of the University of Ibadan are really industrious. There is perhaps no aspect within the realm of the entertainment sector that has eluded active involvement of students of the school. From songwriting, to singing to painting, dancing, handcrafts, fashion and […]
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The Faces of UI
Quite interestingly, the students of the University of Ibadan are really industrious. There is perhaps no aspect within the realm of the entertainment sector that has eluded active involvement of students of the school. From songwriting, to singing to painting, dancing, handcrafts, fashion and modelling. The list is endless, but […]
Don’t Just Breathe — Live!
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 […]
The Technical Success of The Marriage of Anansewa
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 […]
Salsa Sunday
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 […]
UI Writers, Readers, And Artists Must Come Together
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 […]
Kongi Through the Years
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, […]
The Demise of Social Activism in Nigeria’s Music Industry
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 […]
Spotlight: A Time Out with Shegundo
By: Bamijoko, Favour With a vivacious or free spirited melody, a soulful lyrical delivery permeated with an afro-consonscious percussion, Segun Akinola, a final year student of the Faculty of Arts and singer, popularly called Shegundo, debuts his first single. Titled Come to Me, Shegundo’s afropop single, heavily draws from the […]
Beneath the Platitude is an Immersive Subculture of Entertainment & Socio-cultural Life
By – Bamijoko Favour The age-long story goes that the University of Ibadan and her students are zealously preoccupied with academics or an almost non-existent socio-cultural life on the receiving end. While it is true that the University is heavily fixated on its academic aspects, the fact of the matter, […]
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