Tunde Odesola As the crowd moved in the pillar of early morning fog, their song became discernible on the dewy road of the thickly forested Aji...
Tunde Odesola Although it is invisible, 17th Century English philosopher, physician and medical researcher John Locke described a newborn’s mind as a tabula rasa – a...
Tunde Odesola Despite being jobless during the decade-long Great Depression that ravaged the industrialised West, American architect, Alfred Mosher Butts, never turned his mind into the...
Tunde Odesola ‘Ga’nu sí’ is a six-letter Yoruba phrase with three syllables. The first syllable, ‘ga’, means to ‘set open’. The second syllable, ‘nu’, is a...
Tunde Odesola If only the eyes could unsee the seen, the sin of abomination would fall off the heart; the scene of sacrilege would fade away...
Tunde Odesola Without cross-ventilation, the staffroom was a dimly illuminated coven where students were flogged together with their shadows. Painted blue upon crimson baseboard, the staffroom...
Tunde Odesola I told this true-life story to my children a long time ago. But I censored its indecent climax because of their young age. Today,...
The good, the bad and the ugly incidents that fetishised the ‘Ember’ months, notwithstanding, the year 2024 rolled off Earth’s cliff two days ago, plunging into...
Tunde Odesola Abomination! Market noise never drowns the marketplace. The dog never gets executed for barking, nor the ram beheaded for butting. The market takes no...
Tunde Odesola The official name for cage fight is Mixed Martial Arts. Street fight, known as ‘ìjà ìgboro’ in Yoruba, is the bane of Ibadan people,...