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Owanbe, A Guide Book On How Life Is Lived In Nigeria

This well written, appealing, and well-documented cultural masterpiece is profound for many reasons - 1) the dearth and paucity of similar writings, documentations, and 2) recordation of how life is lived in Nigeria, and in fact, all of Africa….

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Les Oubliés

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Efunsetan Aniwura gave me fame -Professor Akinwumi Isola

Hope Afoke Orivri

To an average Nigerian, especially the academicians, Professor Akinwumi Isola is a proven Yoruba lecturer of rare knowledge. He is distinct, most grounded and versed... when it comes to issues relating to Yoruba language. He has authored so many books in the language and still has many in the offing. Meanwhile, as a man of many parts, the retired university don projects differently to the showbiz world. To them, he is a genius playwright, a unique actor who is never deterred by age or status once he is on the screen. In this close up with him by YEMISI ADENIRAN, the 69 year-old culturist unfolds his humble beginning, his dramatic journey into the world of writing, how he coped with women in his youthful years and why the promotion of indigenous languages is mandatory for all parents.

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EFUNSETAN ANIWURA

Iyalode & Yemaya

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Makoko, Token of an Intolerable Oppression

1. Nigerian Slum's Filth Is a World Away From Capital's Glitter

In the Lagos slum of Makoko, perched on a lagoon, the water is black with filth. But today the hymns and chants of the faithful rose with fervor and the white robes of many of the Sunday churchgoers glimmered in the putrid breeze.

Religion, offered in many guises, is booming in a desperate Nigeria, plundered by successive military governments. The pigs that snuffle amid the garbage in Makoko do so beneath signs for the Redeemed Church of Christ, the Word of Life Bible Church, the Foursquare Gospel Church, the Holy Ghost Solution Church and countless others.

Victor Olayiwola, an immigration official with a monthly salary of $40, stood in spotless white robes outside the Celestial Church of Christ, an evangelical church bordered by an open sewer. ''The churches are springing up because of our suffering,'' he said. ''Without the preachers, there would have been war in Nigeria.''

About 500 miles from here, and a world away. in the newly constructed capital, Abuja, signs abound of where some of the oil wealth that might have lifted Makoko from its mire has gone.

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2. Life in Makoko Slum

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua - the Last Trip Home