Damola Awoyokun

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

The Case for Indecent Dressing

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 us till date...

Open Letter To Lagos State Police Commissioner

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 is absurd...

Abortion, The Vatican and Amnesty International

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 and Peace is at best condemnable...

Darfur and the Necessary Boycott of Beijing Olympics

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 government...

The Rise and Rise of Scripture Fundamentalism

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 Bible for absolute facts, I read it for clues...

The Yahoo Generation and the Triple Tropes of Sleaze

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 what is his definition of madness? In the service of what idea is this definition and in whose interest is this idea?

Slavery and Slave Trade: Felony, Reparations and Redress

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? Where is African culpability? How do we uproot the vestiges of the aftermath of slave trade and colonialism particularly the mental and psychological stumps? Why do we think that we cannot do things right by ourselves?

A Protester At The American Embassy

"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 those unborn...

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