Lakunle Jaiyesimi

'Lakunle Jaiyesimi is a Pharmacist from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is a poet and dramatist. He is the creative consultant to Eniolu Creations, a multimedia outfit involved in numerous artistic productions, located in Lagos.

Libya: sand and storm

If I must die, I won't die alone; I die with many children and their mothers, pregnant with babies who never yet had a voice. I die with the aspirations to solve the problems of the world. I die with the songs passed down by generations gone...

Re: Four blunders Obasanjo committed in office – Fani-Kayode

In an article published in The Nation of Saturday, the 19th of March, 2011 with the above title, Yusuf Alli presented us with what one will aptly call the misinformed outbursts of a wounded but still loyal friend...

Preppies and Pikins: Between Hope and Despair

Reports from bystanders at the recently concluded voter-registration exercise around the country have confirmed that the much-touted sanity in our electoral process is yet a mirage...

The Anti-Viral Therapy And The Nigerian Edifice

With regards to a Computer being corrupted by Viruses, an active observer – even a passive onlooker- notices the similitude of a Corrupted Computer and a Corrupted Nigeria!

Racism Redefined: The Rest Of America Is Darkness, But For The History Of Africa

Today, we are here recording the Rebirth of pride; the Rebirth of a lost civilization; the Rebirth of superiority of Africans, even after many years of being deliberately shrouded in perceived absolute crime, ignorance, childlike innocence, and shameless rot...

Princes And Princesses On The Streets

The season we are in is very much still appropriate to redeem the glory-past; except of course if we are content and would desire an extreme madhouse...

Cavalcades Of Gunners In Mauritania

How justified is decrying a coup against a President that heads an executive Council, which only marks time; waiting for the appropriate time to be conferred with a vote of no confidence?

Dying In Public

I hereby make public the news of the private death of a private man, who discovered the cure to AIDS; in the hope that when I discover an added cure to the disease, I would make it scientifically public, so when I die I die in the public...

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