Wednesday, October 21, 2015

JP Clark and Wole Soyinka!

These baaaaaad boys met at the commendation service for late Deacon Gamaliel Onosode at Ikoyi Baptist Church, Lagos.
The good Lord knows how many knocks and flogging (secondary school) and sleepless nights (tertiary level) these grey hairs gave me! I still grapple with some of their works.

However, ‘Abiku,’ whichever version, is now good mainly for its poetics and as a reflection on the ignorance that characterised our forefathers' existence, the subject matter haven been ‘neutralised’ by the knowledge of sickle cell anaemia.  

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