Toyin Falola I was passing by a street in Ibadan when I heard a woman speaking to a goat in the Yoruba language: Ìwo ewúré yìí, a bó e tí tí, ò gbéra so. I fed you, this goat, all the time, but you did not grow...
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By Toyin Falola It was a little wandering at Offa on December 8, 2023, while exchanging good banters that an old acquaintance of mine told me of his multiple troubles, so many that I said you could not be at Offa and...
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Toyin Falola E don cast Last, last Na everybody go chop breakfast Have to say bye-bye, oh Burna Boy, “Last Last” Nigeria’s social decadence has been attributed to...
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