2015 - Tells

When My People Personalise the Truth

Grimot Nane Zine 05/09/2015 No Comments

When My People Personalise the Truth Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed…

Short Stories Social Relations

The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man 2

Grimot Nane Zine 09/08/2015 1 Comment

The Near Death Experience of a Petite Man 2 II Taba and Tomos, who were allies and bitter enemies, were working together by themselves on a plot at Marioka’s house…

Culture as Institution Ecocide Institutions Social Crisis The Environment

Fame and Prize Winners: Wole Soyinka and Nnimmo Bassey

Grimot Nane Zine 03/08/2015 No Comments

Wole Soyinka is famed for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 based on his significant contributions to poetry and drama. Though his award was highly controversial and the…

Institutions Social Relations

Response: Culture is Not Costume

Grimot Nane Zine 17/06/2015 2 Comments

Response: Culture is Not Costume: Why Non-Africans Should Not Wear African Clothing http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/10/culture-is-not-costume-why-non-africans.html?m=1 Nneka Okona’s piece on the “wrongful appropriation” of female African dress is an interesting, challenging and well-written…

Culture as Institution Short Stories Social Relations

The Logic of One

Grimot Nane Zine 14/05/2015 No Comments

The Logic of One The Logic of Booze Whenever Fifties and Rong met up, it always turned out to be a promising event for ethanol use. Bottles of whiskey evaporated…

Social Relations

The Ontology of the African VII: Play and Wound

Grimot Nane Zine 07/05/2015 No Comments

If a leader or intellectual is not articulating the values and necessities of robust human pride to his people, he or she is a dangerous traitor unworthy of the position…