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'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.
At the moment of this writing, my brain throbs to fish out names of heroes, young and old, dead or alive, but what comes readily to me is an endless list of names of people that had somehow stagnated the country but whose robes had regularly been made clean...
What is most surprising and should form the crux of this piece is that those who profess the Christian faith with a puff of the chest, were the direct culprits who threw the stones...
I plunder national resources. I embellish the treachery of my people with a well-trimmed moustache and cute face, fluent English, and a command of aristocracy. And I alter societal thinking and national orientation forever...
I have been hoping for a flourishing period, a better tomorrow. However, this is fast becoming a mirage, a tint in the sky.... I hope for a time when we all shall stop walking on our heads...
In those days, when an undergraduate walked the streets, everybody rallied round him; the elders thronged him for the ever-involving intellectual debates and news about the latest discoveries, while the children flocked about him to listen to fables from 'I don't know where'…
Nobody cared to stop and ask what was amiss. She was being raped! Everybody kept up their pace; it was nobody’s home; she was nobody’s daughter; and it was nobody’s pain…
Nobody Asked Me, But…
“Ah, that man is very detribalised.”
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