Damola Awoyokun

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

On Pastor Adeboye

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...

Obama’s Victory and British Immigration

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...

Still on Obama and Abortion

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

The Next Einsteins and The Expressway Churches

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...

On the Eliot Spitzer Affair

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?

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

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

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

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...

On, The Strong Breed

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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Osun: Long live Edenisation!

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