Sis, I wish this was the year When you only loved others as you love yourself, as Christ adjured us. When you would send Whatsapp messages that graciously say “sorry I cannot come”; or “oops I clean forgot”; and “ehh- who are you?”; or even, “buzz off, I’m busy…”
Open Joint Statement in Response to the ICSD Board of Education
Anjanette Brown and Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, January 15, 2021 The Board of Education serves at the request of our community as a check and balance on the superintendent of schools. First and foremost, I, Ms. Anjanettte Brown, am a parent before I was ever Luvelle Brown‘s “ex-wife”. For Mr. Eversley-Bradwell to portray me in the media … Continue reading Open Joint Statement in Response to the ICSD Board of Education
President Buhari – Toxicity of Power in an Embalmed Narcissistic Fossil
Considerations regarding President Buhari: “Narcissists and psychopaths dissociate a lot because their contact with the world and with others is via a fictitious construct: The false self. Narcissists never experience reality directly but through a distorting lens darkly. They get rid of any information that challenges their grandiose self-perception and the narrative they had constructed … Continue reading President Buhari – Toxicity of Power in an Embalmed Narcissistic Fossil
I Saw that Child Again Today
I Saw that Child Again Today by Iyetade Verity Soyinka (c) 2013 I saw that child again today. She was battered, and bruised, and bloody. Holes gouged in her, Tears of loss. I saw that child again today. And instead of screaming at her, "please die!" Instead of pleading with her, to let me forget … Continue reading I Saw that Child Again Today
Recovery
by Iyetade Verity Soyinka (c) 2012 If the stream has been cut off from its source, Can it recover itself? If the freshness of the spring water, Has been diverted from it's original purpose, To serve the lusts of mean, base, perverted persons, Can it remember who it was? If the spring has not been … Continue reading Recovery
COVID School Re-openings and the Politics of Dissent and Assent in Ithaca
COVID-19 has brought misery, tensions and deep fissures in its wake. As President Trump continues to exploit the deep underlying strains in the sociopolitical landscape, the country has exploded with anger, frustration and a growing loss of hope and confidence in national and local leaderships. It is difficult to imagine that issues other than the … Continue reading COVID School Re-openings and the Politics of Dissent and Assent in Ithaca
Of Seats, Thrones, Banal encounters and the Misdirected Anxieties of an Embattled People
Some of the dubious joys of living in dual spaces comes with the all-too-frequent moments where you have to explain the particularities of Nigeria's social media discourse to bewildered foreigners: "Hmm, So let's see, would you run this by me again? ... Professor Wole Soyinka mistakenly sits in the wrong seat in Business Class. Then … Continue reading Of Seats, Thrones, Banal encounters and the Misdirected Anxieties of an Embattled People
Peyi Soyinka-Airewele 