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Damola Awoyokun

Damola Awoyokun

Damola Awoyokun is an essayist and historian. He lives in London.

  • The Househelp and the Death of Mrs Foluke Joseph

    by Damola Awoyokun November 11, 2017
    by Damola Awoyokun

    According to Ayo Ademokoya’s news story which circulated widely on social media, Mrs Foluke Joseph, the 41-year-old mother of three was murdered by her 11-year-old housemaid.  The story is drenched…

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  • Victorian Lagos Slaves and the Inversion of Oshodi Tapa

    by Damola Awoyokun April 20, 2016
    by Damola Awoyokun

     My attention has been drawn to the press statement issued by the Oshodi Tapa family titled, “Oshodi Tapa wasn’t a slave of Oba Kosoko, says family” (The Guardian 6th May 2015) which…

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  • Sex and the Catholic Church (3)

    by Damola Awoyokun March 28, 2011
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Granted Prof Akinwale became a professor at a relatively young age. Granted he became the Dean of studies at a young age but with these lapses of thought so far, I am still waiting for justifications of such precocity…

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  • Sex and the Catholic Church (2)

    by Damola Awoyokun March 16, 2011
    by Damola Awoyokun

    The Church has no more credible reason to hold on to her prohibition of condoms. Onanism, on which the prohibition rests probatur ex scriptura is a blatant ignorance of the findings of science. It is not sperm that gives human life. It is the union of sperm and ovum…

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  • The Angolan death on BA77 at Heathrow

    by Damola Awoyokun October 20, 2010
    by Damola Awoyokun

    What struck me when I saw the sitting plan of the BA77 flight on which Jimmy Mubenga died on October 12 was his seat’s proximity to the toilet at the back of the plane. Also was the fact that he was hedged in left right and centre by hefty security operatives…

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  • The Chilling Advertisement for Al-Qaeda

    by Damola Awoyokun February 16, 2010
    by Damola Awoyokun

    It was distressing that the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab botched Christmas day bombing incident has put Nigeria too on the global terror map. But the chilling news is that to Al-Qaeda, it has spotlighted the country as a place to invest…

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  • The Meaning of Being a Genius

    by Damola Awoyokun July 29, 2009
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Geniuses have no time for sanity. They prefer ideas to normality. They are not of us. They are just en route since they do not belong here. While others are fighting for lands and possessions to stake their claim on earth, geniuses are fighting gravity to capture the skies…

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  • Still on Susan Wenger

    by Damola Awoyokun May 16, 2009
    by Damola Awoyokun

    When my cousin’s wife with her one-week due pregnancy developed some complications and was rushed to hospital, it was not the doctor that discharged her, it was her pastor. He prayed and asked if she had faith. Who would not answer yes? Like Jesus, he said pack up your mat and go. She too is died…

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  • On Pastor Adeboye

    by Damola Awoyokun January 5, 2009
    by Damola Awoyokun

    I have said it before, the problem called Pentecostalism is not in the uncontraceptive spread of churches, it is in how they corrupt the roots of our thinking and return us speedily to the primitive age…

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  • Obama’s Victory and British Immigration

    by Damola Awoyokun December 2, 2008
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Barack Obama’s victory scored a rebuke on the cultural foundations of our own immigration policy. Here immigration is seen as a means of bringing people as fillers for vacancies of jobs we don’t do…

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  • Still on Obama and Abortion

    by Damola Awoyokun October 29, 2008
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Women’s freedom of choice is what every being that is human should defend not only Obama or the democrats or liberals…

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  • The Next Einsteins and The Expressway Churches

    by Damola Awoyokun May 26, 2008
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Sheep is an animal with a challenging intellectual deficit. Have you seen how they cross busy roads? Young minds should aspire to be goats. A goat believes in itself. It is smart. It does not take no for an answer…

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  • On the Eliot Spitzer Affair

    by Damola Awoyokun April 1, 2008
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Why is Abati and many of the mainstream American media scissoring from public discourse the illegality of big brother wire-tapping with which Eliot Spitzer was caught that would have made the case not travel far in court?

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  • Highlife: Fallacy Of Self Projection Of Benson Idonije On Rolling Dollar And Titi Oguntoyinbo

    by Damola Awoyokun January 24, 2008
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Benson Idonije really loves highlife. At times his love becomes obsessive and begins to tamper with his aesthetic assessments…

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  • On Lagbaja!'s Love Video, ‘Never Far Away’

    by Damola Awoyokun December 15, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Lagbaja! a soldier of culture, understands the authentic meaning of refreshing the traditional aesthetics, and handles it proficiently through modernisation and fusion with the sublime in urban and foreign elements…

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  • On, The Strong Breed

    by Damola Awoyokun October 11, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society as its representative, its curator of memory, its specialist of consciousness, and its looming conscience…

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