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WHICH ANIMAL DO YOU FEAR?
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God described them in different colors, shapes and sound just for some purposes; sometimes for protection and it may even be that they are their to scare human. You fear animals?
This is Lagos- a welcoming address to all dignities an old sermon preached by three wisemen no praises or pleasantries at the entrance gate Come and face your death or life warrant in a no man's land but everyone's home The walls of the streets are filled to its brim the good, the bad, the ugly, and the wild Yoga girls parading in a lost emotions Skimpy skirt Lucifer, ruining many men Yahoo boys fan smiling coals into money Spinners spin the spindle of the morning Spreading on their wings are skyscrapers, Oceans greeting in a pleasant radiation... In her bosom are cruel hustlers borrowing the Earful clamour of the day. "No sweat, no sweet" every toddler sings Traffic holds down to ransom the hurrying legs of yellow and black buses whose courage is like shield This is Lagos- the flag of Nigeria Where floating slums swallow innocent eyes Carbonated air blares out the lungs to rot the streets are strict and tough- A g...
African drama and theatre started to emerge in Africa continent when British came to make their affairs of life imposed on Africans. They came with ideas; religion, education, business transaction, making Africa a raw material place where their solid land was built up by it. Through this, African lifestyle changed and wore another garment because of the predicament at the advent of British. Though Africans had their normal dramatization (in form of folklore), their experiences for the coming of British always feature in the African drama and theatre that was inherited from Europeans. The origin of African drama and theatre based on traditional, history, and contemporary dramatic forms in Africa which range from sacred or ritual performances to dramatized storytelling, literary drama, or modern fusion of scripted theatre with traditional performance techniques. The diversity in performances is as a result of massive spread of cultures and traditions in each country. A lot of t...
INTRODUCTION: 2016 marks the golden anniversary of the publication of the novel Efuru by Flora Nwapa. Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in 1966 as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first published book by an African woman writer. BACKGROUND Flora Nwapa was born on January 13th, 1931 in Oguta in the present day Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Flora attended Oguta CMS Central School, Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls School, Elelenwo, Rivers State; CMS Girls Grammar School, Lagos, and Queens College, Yaba, Lagos in 1951-52. She then proceeded to the University College Ibadan (University of Ibadan) in 1953 where she graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Art (BA) in 1957. The next year, she went to the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and finished with a Diploma in education. Upon her return to Nigeria in 1959, her initial work experience started as an educational officer in Calabar, Cross R...
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