Tunde Odesola The darkness was so heavy you could touch it. ’Twas so thick it could stain. Sinister and choking, the darkness screened off the sky...
Tunde Odesola Dear Uncle Ahmed, Kowtowing is when a kowtower bows before wealth, power and influence. But, Your Excellency, when I refer to you as ‘Uncle...
Tunde Odesola Moonless and mournful, the serene night was pierced by the hoots of an owl perching atop HillTop coven owned by the sad and sadistic...
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,...