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WHO WON? - Written by Babatunde Lamidi-Sanni
2012-01-18
As Nigerians returned back to work today, I kept thinking over and over who was the true victor between the Government and the Nigerian people after the 6-day national strike action.
During discussions with friends and people, I maintained a view that the price would most likely fall in the middle between 65naira and the newly increased price of 141naira. Labour would claim that as a victory albeit a partial on...
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Occupy Nigeria - Written by Babatunde Lamidi-Sanni
2012-01-10
Anyone who has known me for a very long time would not believe that I would be involved in a protest march. But there comes a time in a man's life when Enough is Enough and that is what Nigerians are feeling at the moment. So today, I joined my fellow countrymen in occupying the streets. It's time to take back the country. A Government should be scared of its people and not the other way around.
It'...
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Dear America - Written by Maryse Bakomito
2011-12-21
Dear America
You are a great country. You are the land of the Ford Motor Company, mass production and Tom Ford. You have birthed amazing men like Jackson Pollock, Steven Spielberg & Martin Luther King.
You gave us Thomas Edison who then gave us the electric lightbulb, the phonograph and the motion picture camera. You are home to Breakfast at Tiffany's, the GAP, The Killers...
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MY FIRST POEM - Written by Ruth Matthew
2011-11-08
To have creativity in you and not realise it is a terrible thing. To know you have that creative side and not want to do anything to improve it, is much worse. I realised that when I wrote my first poem. I had always been a child that lived outside my family, the one who always got into trouble just because. I lived on the wild side, emotions building in me but not knowing how to express them. Not being understood, not knowing how ...
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My First Editorship: Road to Writerdom - Written by Eromo Egbejule
2011-11-02
Disagree all you will; it takes nothing away from the fact that I was born ready to edit.
As a child, I'd correct elders around when their tenses and grammar was incorrect. By the time I was twelve, most of my classmates would refuse to give me their notes to update mine. Reason: I was always editing with my favourite colour of pen, black, and this made them so mad! At the same age, I began a four-sheet han...
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My Firsts - Written by Khona Vena
2011-11-02
My First year at university was my first time away from home, the first time to live my own life. I was so eager to get away from home yet so anxious about what lay ahead. As I stood confused in line to register for my major, my first defining moment was made by a complete stranger who decided what I would study. “I think you should do Film, Media and Visual Studies. It would suit you,” he said. “Um, ok&hell...
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The first time I experienced sexual harassment - Written by Damaria Senne
2011-11-02
The first time I experienced sexual harassment
The year was 1985. I had just turned 17, at university and living away from home for the very first time. I was raised by overprotective parents and hadn’t ever been anywhere or done anything without a family member being present. So going away to University in another province, where they spoke a language that was different from my mother-to...
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Andile Mngxitama – Steve Biko reincarnated - Written by Keitu Reid
2011-10-03
Andile Mngxitama is a black consciousness thinker, publisher, flirt, social activist and organiser and co-editor of Biko Lives! The latter being relevant as not only does the man resemble Biko, he is clearly reincarnating the black-consciousness leader's legacy. Andile does not cover up the fact that he benefits from comparisons with Ste...
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10 years since 9/11 – but what about Africa? - Written by Keitu Reid
2011-09-12
10 years ago I wrote the piece below. It was never published (except momentarily on my facebook notes – hardly counts). I came across it while busy cleaning out my mail box. I read it and felt so sad. I cringed thinking ‘The more things change, the more they stay exactly the same.’
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