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Education without Liberation

This is an exclusive thoughts of someone, Mr Jubril Ayoola who is a learning scholar in  Nigeria, concerning the then colonial master's and the ruled. Thus it emphasizes: One of first few questions I asked myself when I started to rationalize is "Why Was I Born in this Nation", "Why am I not white". I started to relate with my childhood friends and schoolmates at a very tender age only to realize I am not the only one with that mentality. Later when I was around age 10, when I started attending Luth CMUL staff school I accepted the fact that I am black not because I willing wanted to but because I realized again that I have no choice but to accept that reality. Relating with my friends made me discover how much so many of them kept denying themselves attribution to our nationality or continent as whole. We're still young but we have this mentality, acceptance or denying, our inert feelings wish we were not of this nation. We feel this way not because w

An Exclusive Interview with a don in Economics

An Erudite of Economics who retired from civil service, Professor Joseph Ajibola Fabayo, in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife celebrated his new age at 70 years and his retirement on Wednesday 8th August 2018. He was interviewed shortly after the celebration that held that Wednesday at moot and mock near First bank lecture theatre in OAU by an OAUpeeps & Wapniyi News reporter. These are the fruits of his reflexions on questions he was interrogated. Interviewer: Good Evening sir Prof: Good Evening Interviewer: Sir, I'm from OAUpeeps News Agency. Sir, I want ask you some few questions. Prof: Okay Interviewer: Sir, can you work in the ministry of this failing government in Nigeria if appointed ? Prof: I can never, I can  never. There is no amount of endowment, give me one million naira per day, 1 million naira every day to work, I can't. I will rather stay with my 200 thousand here in ife and now as it is, I will now be on pension. I don't know how much that

SANS QUOI ?

Je rêve d'avoir plus, une chose ! La chose qui me donnera la valeur La valeur que beaucoup s'opposent En s'opposant à travailler avec la vigueur Je vois des pensées des hommes nuls Si non nul, c'est qu'ils ont rien à bailler Autrement, je vois des hommes qui courent après des culs D'une manière étonnante: bouche bée Ils pensent que les culs sont faits pour les bander Hélas, pourquoi le monde semble-t-il dormir  à l'envers ? Est-ce le Dieu contre nous ou nos ancêtres ? Est-ce la faute de ceux venus par les mers ? Mais, qui va nous faire croire à ces vieux voix sans lettres ? Je prévois un village paisible Là, tout le monde sera sensible Sensible de ne pas s'abonner aux fourchettes pénibles Sans quoi, nous dormirons dans la servitude si possible ©2018 (French; TheLucky)