Damola Awoyokun

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

Edward Said…One Year After

Professor Edward Said's greatest legacy is the younger 'Saids' he hatched worldwide...

Pornography And Its Discontents

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 someone into something...

On the Resignation of Okonjo Iweala

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...

Violence: Teaching Corporate Management Through Literature

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 each choice and each alternative whether at school, the family, in the place of work or the club...

Orunmila, Odia And The NLNG Prizes

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 then is bad if the architects of the NLNG Prizes compose conditions that exclude offshore Nigerian scientists and writers...

Kalakuta English and Kalakuta Perspective

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 Haiti in Cambodia in Rwanda in the Arab jihads and intifadas...

Open Letter To The Chinese President

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

People’s Democratic Party – P.D.P.

Permanently Deaf President.

Purely Draconian President.

President Dupes the People.

President Deepens Problems.

Parade of Deranged People...

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