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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…

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…

Culture as Institution Social Relations

The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual?

Grimot Nane Zine 11/12/2014 No Comments

The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual? Whether Nigerian intellectuals like it or not, Europe and its extensions were built with the ideas of intellectuals. I cannot imagine a Europe without its prodigious…