Monthly Archives: December, 2022

Kurunmi: An Historical Tragedy (1971) is an historical play about the Ibadan-Ijaiye war, what culminated into the war, the turns it took, and the tragical losses of Kurunmi, a real-life principal actor in the war.

the past, like stale water, should be left unstirred lest the petrifying odor of our mistakes rises to distort our perception of the present.

Echoes of Childhood Follies is a novella written by Lambert Ototo about the childhood mistakes of Saagbe and later his daughter, Tarinah.

This blog post examines the memorable quotes from Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money. The selected excerpts from the book offer advice

Some of the themes in Femi Osofisan’s Women of Owu include war and destruction, puppetry of humans by the gods, vengeance, fate, slavery, distortion of history, deceit, and symbiotic relationship between gods and human beings.

“The Path” sums up the philosophy of Beautiful Nubia as an entertainer and the role of a musician in a dysfunctional society.

Women of Owu by Femi Osofisan is a play about the destruction of the ancient Owu Kingdom after seven years of siege by the allied forces of Ife, Ijebu, and the Oyo mercenaries. The city is burnt to rubble, the men and children are killed, the shrines of the gods are desecrated, and the surviving widows are displaced from the ruins of the city into slavery.

The figures of speech used in Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall”, are simile, metaphor, rhetorical question, assonance, and alliteration.

The figures of speech in “Stanley Meets Mutesa” are simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, synecdoche, parallelism, onomatopoeia, repetition, antithesis,  and symbolism.

So, why do these students think Unexpected Joy at Dawn is somehow difficult to understand? What makes Unexpected Joy at Dawn distinct?