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Damola Awoyokun

Damola Awoyokun

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

  • The Case for Indecent Dressing

    by Damola Awoyokun September 12, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    The need to prostrate before an idea, to one vision of perfection, to get addicted to a programmed way of life is the bequest of the Islam and Christianity gripping …

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  • Open Letter To Lagos State Police Commissioner

    by Damola Awoyokun August 2, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    We know you are new to the job, expectedly there will be lots of Initial Gra Gra. But your policy of arresting and arraigning our Lagos ladies for skimpy dressing …

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  • Abortion, The Vatican and Amnesty International

    by Damola Awoyokun June 22, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    The call for Catholics to refuse membership of and refuse to finance Amnesty International because of its new  ‘pro-abortion about-turn’ by Cardinal Renato Martino of the Pontifical Council for Justice …

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  • Darfur and the Necessary Boycott of Beijing Olympics

    by Damola Awoyokun June 20, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    We call on the Nigerian government to rally all other African nations to boycott the Beijing Olympics next year should China still insist on its deadly intimacy with the Sudanese …

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  • The Rise and Rise of Scripture Fundamentalism

    by Damola Awoyokun May 24, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Is the Bible the word of God or the Bible includes the word of God? As a non-Jew with an intimate affinity with oppressed classes, I do not read the …

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  • The Yahoo Generation and the Triple Tropes of Sleaze

    by Damola Awoyokun March 31, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    The exemplary writer is a broker in madness because therein lies the powers of the new. And so when a writer accuses the other of being mad, we should ask …

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  • Slavery and Slave Trade: Felony, Reparations and Redress

    by Damola Awoyokun March 17, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    We have to commit ourselves, without further ado, to self-interrogation and re-examine our presumptions. When and where did the rain start to beat us? Who and who collaborated in it? …

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  • A Protester At The American Embassy

    by Damola Awoyokun March 8, 2007
    by Damola Awoyokun

    “Where did you order them to take me, white one? To kill me?” I abused him well and launched violent torrents of vituperative criticisms on Bush and his descendants even …

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  • Edward Said…One Year After

    by Damola Awoyokun October 1, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Professor Edward Said’s greatest legacy is the younger ‘Saids’ he hatched worldwide…

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  • Pornography And Its Discontents

    by Damola Awoyokun August 21, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Pornography happens to women. It thrusts on them an insulting view of their social roles, generating a feeling of gender and sexual inferiority. It is a concrete way of changing …

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  • On the Resignation of Okonjo Iweala

    by Damola Awoyokun August 4, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    I wish to congratulate Ngozi Okonjo Iweala for her service to the nation and for her resignation. When young people mention the good that is happening to Nigeria, they include her…

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  • Violence: Teaching Corporate Management Through Literature

    by Damola Awoyokun July 5, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    It is the business of literature to empower us in making the best possible choice in the many alternatives of real life and to illustrate before hand, the consequence of …

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  • Orunmila, Odia And The NLNG Prizes

    by Damola Awoyokun June 14, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Every prize in the world lives not on bread alone but also from conditions that flow forth from its overall objective. Since prize sponsors have the freedom of conditions, what …

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  • Kalakuta English and Kalakuta Perspective

    by Damola Awoyokun June 2, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    War is evil. War, throughout history and all over the world, is the condition that produces child soldiers whether in the war on Troy or the war on Rome in …

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  • Open Letter To The Chinese President

    by Damola Awoyokun May 14, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    We deplore western interests, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google in doing business with China for acquiescing to its repressive modus operandi thereby becoming accomplices…

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  • People’s Democratic Party – P.D.P.

    by Damola Awoyokun April 12, 2006
    by Damola Awoyokun

    Permanently Deaf President. Purely Draconian President. President Dupes the People. President Deepens Problems. Parade of Deranged People…

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