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Nigerian pastors, imams and their sex sermon obsession (opens the original)
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By heritage and geography, Òra-Ìgbómìnà, a countryside in the Ifedayo Local Government Area of Òsun State, is a historic, unique and strategic land. Yoruba history says that Òra is the cradle of education and Christianity in Ìgbómìnàland, being the first Ìgbómìnà town to receive Christianity through CMS missionaries in the 1890s, while St Stephen’s Anglican Primary School, Òra, established in 1912, is reputed to be the first primary school in all of Ìgbómìnàland. Strategically, Òra sits at
Dotun Oladipo: Beyond death’s bloody fangs (opens the original)
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Before I encountered one of Nigeria’s funniest and roundest fabulists, Gbenga Adeboye, aka Funwontan, I had long encountered a miniature fabulist in Nurudeen Awolaru, my classmate at St Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Idi-Oro, Lagos State. Nuru’s brilliance didn’t shine through the pages of notebooks; it emitted through his thin-lipped mouth. Though I never set my eyes on Nuru since about 1977, his memory is forever etched in the blackboard of my mind. How can I forget Nurudeen – kinky black hai
After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (4) (opens the original)
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A sibling going to bury the corpse of his elder brother naked should take his younger brother along. Why? Because the way today’s corpse is buried naked is how tomorrow’s corpse would be buried. That is a Yoruba thought on fairness, respect, and reciprocity. But who is burying who? To interrogate Yoruba popular music with regard to their origins and heritage, rise, peak, vulnerability, decline, and potential rebirth, without talking about Yoruba’s worldview on music and drums is tantamount to te
After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (3) (opens the original)
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If wishes were horses, 1975 would have been the end of King Sunny Ade’s music career. It was the year a Lagos High Court slammed KSA with a nine-month ban, forbidding him from recording music. The ban followed a dispute between KSA and the owner of two leading record labels, Take Your Choice and African Songs Ltd, the late Chief Bolarinwa Yaqub Abioro. The Balogun of Ipokia, Abioro, was a big fish. In fact, he was a shark, capable of swallowing KSA up, like the big fish that swallowed Jonah whil
After Obey and KSA, will Fuji bury Jùjú? (2) (opens the original)
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A musical genre rarely dies on the day its last great musician dies. It dies more quietly, when generations stop hearing themselves in the music. This, most probably, may be the real trouble with Jùjú. Bathwater cascades from the head to the feet, says an ancient proverb from southwestern Nigeria. For decades, Jùjú was not just music. Jùjú was both a message and movement. It was an archive of Yoruba social life. It carried proverbs, prayers, praise, gossip, stories, morality and memory. It could
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