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Understanding finance in marriage
A review of Phillips Adewale Odelana’s book, Marriage Mines: Cents and Sensible Use of Money in Marriage.ONE of the many challenges facing marriages today is the issue of money and how it is dispensed in the home.…
Betrayal, courage, racism come to play in The Book of Memory
This book is a gripping story. It is a book that exposes humanity and shows not just the failings of humanity, but also the goodness that is inherent in it when one chooses to look a little deeper than the surface. ‘The Book of Memory’…
The Avalon Daily Screens Documentary on Press freedom In Nigeria
It was Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright and screenwriter that succinctly opined that “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.” This much was demonstrated at the…
Tracing Okeho’s return to original site 100 years after
IN the humanities, the phrase ‘the part is a mirror of the whole’ is a very popular maxim. Okeho in very many respects mirrors what is going on in Nigeria and in many other countries in Africa. What has just been stated is not a hyperbole…
When writers joined security discourse
IT was an unusual gathering when writers, academia, traditional rulers, security agencies and business persons converged on Ibadan last Thursday for the third edition of the All Nigerian Writers’ Summit on Peace and Security organised by…
Traditional rulers as custodians of Yoruba culture
TRADITIONAL rulers have been known as very important personalities in the society; they have been playing significant roles politically and economically in their respective domains.It is believed that Yoruba traditional rulers are…
African languages are not vernaculars, says UI don
A professor of Yoruba literature and film studies at the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Durotoye Adeleke, has said that African languages are not vernaculars but real languages.Professor Adeleke…
Purple Hibiscus: Ten years and still counting
The year started with the ubiquitous trite about a new decade and a review of the previous one, and as a literary lover, I thought about picking a book of the decade; while a couple of books stand out, ‘Purple Hibiscus’ seems incomparable.…
Understanding girls’ sexuality at puberty
A review of Tosin Togun’s book, Puberty and Sexuality in Girls.PUBERTY is a very crucial stage in girls as this is the period when their bodies grow into adulthood. It is also a time when the body attains sexual maturity.…
Esie figurines: Works of God or man?
ESIE is an ancient Igbomina town in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, and it is situated some kilometers away from Ilorin, the state capital. Esie is generally known as the home of 800 soapstone figures.Esie museum happens…