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By Muyiwa Adetiba I now have an autographed copy of Shobanjo’s biography (I won’t disclose the endearing words it contained). It was brought to my place by the man himself on Monday afternoon. I didn’t know when or how, but I knew I would get it soon because he had promised. He has always kept
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By Muyiwa Adetiba I found myself mediating between two close friends not too long ago. They were college classmates who became very successful professionals. It turned out one needed money to complete a project. He approached the other who readily obliged. As is so often between contemporaries and friends, the terms of repayment were vague.
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By Muyiwa Adetiba The home of a teacher in the early fifties was a privileged home. Growing up in one gave you a certain air. It was intangible, but it was there. Especially if it was in a rural or suburban community. It was not necessarily a richer home – it was in all probability,
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By Muyiwa Adetiba Many news buffs who rely on CNN for their news – a lot of people across the world do – will see Mr Donald Trump the incumbent US President, as a man who is unworthy of the office he holds. Over the course of his presidency, Mr Trump has been portrayed by
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By Muyiwa Adetiba Ardent followers of what we – with a certain amount of fondness and exclusiveness – used to call cross-over jazz in our days, will recall the exploits of George Benson in that genre of music. (I smile even now as I remember the people and places that made my world rock during
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By Muyiwa Adetiba My ancestors say Ni inu ikoko dudu ni eko funfun tin’jade’. Translated literally, it means that out of the black pot comes white pap’. It is an adage which is used to illustrate that something pure and beautiful can sometimes come out of dark, seamy places. It was the adage that immediately
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By Muyiwa Adetiba We all have our different ways of coping with tragedy. We could go into denial and hope the pain would pass away on its own. We could confront it and let the pain sear through our being as we try to exorcise it. Or we could wallow in self-pity and indulge in
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By Muyiwa Adetiba We found ourselves experiencing another wave of lockdown in the country this week. It was not government this time that stopped people from going to work or performing their daily chores. This was in fact anti-government. Nigerians went out late last week to find largely peaceful protests on the streets that gradually
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By Muyiwa Adetiba Would we treat the earth differently if we realised it was in anguish? Would our attitude be different if we knew we would be held accountable for our uses and abuses of the planet? Theseweresome of the questions that crossed my mind more than once during the enforced lockdown and more recently,
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MUYIWA ADETIBA Those who watched this week’s Presidential debate would have had to listen hard to believe they were watching an American Presidential Debate and not a backwater debate from some backwater country. The absence of decorum was embarrassing. One of the two contestants came to fight dirty. He succeeded. The other wanted to rise
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