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TinubuShet:Do you know what literary achievements are? Do you know what literary works are? Like 6 of WS works put together is not even up to one Novel of Adichie. Consider the strong breed, the trials of brother jero and 6 other works by WS, they are not up to a single work of Adichie. Get it or get out. |
Meet the only woman in modern history to have married two presidents Its not two leaders who fell in love with me, but two real people. I feel privileged that I have shared my life with two such exceptional men - Graça Machel There are many things Africa has given the world which is why it’s such a wonderful place to live. Having two presidents in a country at a time is extraordinary, but the motherland has also had the only woman to have become the First Lady of two different countries – Mozambique and South Africa. Meet Graça Simbine Machel, the only person in history of the universe to have been the first spouse to two different democratically elected African leaders. Graça Simbine Machelwas born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique, and she was the last child in a family of six. Her father died three weeks before her birth and left an instruction that she must be educated through high school. A will that was carried out by her older siblings. Graça Simbine Machel education After completing high school, the Methodist church granted her a scholarship to study at Lisbon University, Portugal. And she chose to major in languages. ADVERTISEMENT Due to Surveillance from the Portuguese secret police, she was forced to abandon her education and fled to Switzerland. In 1973, she returned to Tanzania and joined the FRELIMO where she met her first husband, Samora Machel – the first president of Mozambique. On June 25, 1975, Mozambique gained independence and Samora Machel was made the first president of the new country. Graça Simbine Machel marriage to Samora Machel At sworn in as a president of the new nation, Samora Machel was a widower as his wife, Josina, had died of leukaemia in 1971. In September of 1975, Graça married Samora Machel and became the First Lady of the country. She combined this position with her cabinet portfolio as Education minister till 1986. Samora Machel died in a plane crash on October 19, 1986, and this made her to resign her post as the country's Minister of Education. Graça Simbine Machel marriage to Madiba Nelson Mandela Graça’s marriage to Mandela was dramatic as it was announced at the 80th birthday of the late icon. This was in the presence of over 2,000 international guests in 1998. Having tied the nuptial knots with Mandela, Graça assumed the position of the First Lady of South Africa at age 52. Graça said about her marriage to Mandela: "We were grown up; we were settled; we knew the value of a companion, of a partner." Source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.pulse.ng/bi/lifestyle/graca-machel-meet-the-only-woman-in-modern-history-to-have-married-two-presidents/fg93swe.amp&ved=2ahUKEwiDvf2HwKT-AhWE5KQKHVvgCyUQFnoECAwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3rtVLozNJy6CuiDuDWMDD_
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Wurola Zaynab who married a senator, governor, Oni of Ife & Arab prince Could this be hustle or destiny?
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Below are the awards and special recognition of the great weaver of words, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Source: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie&ved=2ahUKEwipxsuY5aP-AhUPOewKHUSBACwQFnoECCAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3XMKnK2KRR5PUoke1RzjYc
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[quote author=Pengician post=44198005]20 ways to know that something is wrong with You. By SIR A-ONE No one is perfect, right? I know that quite alright. But there are countless ways to have a self-temple-run. The following ways are some of the habits to note and to know when you're on track in equanimity with those around you. How you live with those around you, how it can affect them or affect your very self. Remember in the journey of Life, no one is perfect. We are all striving to be better Icons in our environment. I am not all-knowing. And no one is an estuary of knowledge. Here are some of the qualities to know that something is definitely wrong. 1. You read messages and don't reply. Not even with emoticons. 2. You don't return missed calls. 3. You don't apologize. 4. You think you're always right. Every other person is always wrong. 5. You don't think well before you talk/write/respond. 6. Always want to respond to everything online. 7. You hate corrections. 8. You value your present status quo. You hate to upgrade in Life. 9. Visiting others is always a problem. 10. Always expecting an opposite sex visitor. 11. Epitism/sex is your number one priority in Life. 12. You think about your own self. Others mean nothing to you. 13. You call other people 'FANS' ..... ..... Fanatics/Enthusiasts are there, no doubt. You must not sound it to people that they are FANS. Don't be pompous. Why not call them 'Friends'? 14. Helping others become a problem to you. .... .... You must not have too much before You can help. 15. You always remember your Friends in hardship. .... .... What happens to the good times? 16. You always want others to read your work, but You hate reading other people's work(s). 17. You talk ill about your Maker. ... ... Even if you're an atheist, Don't you have a father/mother? Why will your common sense not make it clear to You that there is a 'Supreme Designer' who designed your so-called Parents? 18. You're too 'rigid'. 19. Out of 20 persons, 5 persons cannot say anything 'good' about You. 20. You want to be helped, but will not in turn want to render a helping hand to anyone. You know better. Please, add yours. Dear Reader/Critic don't pause the conversation. Is well |
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Pengician:*FROM NOBEL LAUREATE TO MERCENARY POLITICAL SOPHISM—How Wole Soyinka’s Blurred Moral Judgment Brought Nigeria to Her Present Political Purgatory* Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD Odogwu of Ibusa Clan & Combatant Political Historian Research Fellow@Exile, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Email: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com “Passing six no bi passing sense.” So goes a common saying among Edo-Delta people. The danger with Prof Wole Soyinka is that he belongs to the genre of Nigerian intellectual class that thinks that expertise in literary wordiness equates moral and sagacious political judgments. There is no doubting the fact that Wole Soyinka excelled mountainously in fictional literary creativity; but this cannot be same in the fields of political calculus and historical judgment. In his graphic depiction of the horrific Operation Weti that resulted from the rigged 1965 Western Regional election and which consequently led to the much celebrated but sabotaged January 15, 1966 coup d’etat, the renowned poet J. P. Clark penned down the following poetic verse titled: the “Seasons of Omens”: “When CALABASHES HELD petrol and men turned gays in the streets: Then came the five hunters; When mansions and limousines made bonfires in sunset cities: Then came the five hunters; When clans were discovered that were not in the book and cattle counted for heads of men: Then came the five hunters; When hoodlums took possession of police barracks in defiance of bullets: Then came the five hunters; When ministers legislated from bed and made high office the prize for failure: Then came the five hunters; When wads of notes were kept in infant skulls with full blessing of prelates: Then came the five hunters; When women grew heavy with ballot papers delivering the house entire to adulterers: Then came the five hunters....” George Santayana tells us that “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The question to the Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka is has he so quickly forgotten the past in which he was an active participant, as relayed in the foregoing poetic verse by his contemporary? It is a truism that Prof Wole’s prodigious political prognostications have often come with fatal cacophony of self-indicting moral miscalculation that places him on the saddle of intellectual mercenary. He sees Nigerian citizens with the same fictional sense of vision he applied in constructing his “Kongi’s Harvest”—an avalanche of imperious mental subjectivity. Just check out his political antecedents. Prof Wole Soyinka is a man of moral unpredictability, superfluous political judgment and, morbid sense of history. Today he will see white and call it white. Tomorrow he will see the same white and call it black. This has led some people to ponder what could have happened in-between the two episodes. Was it that he was compromised somewhere at some points, as Nigerians appear to suspect that his recent avalanche of attacks on Obidients might be linked to a sumptuous cash rain from Bola Ahmed Tinubu; or he is imperceptive in his sense of historical judgments? Let’s take a melancholy historical promenade into Prof Soyinka’s agnostic thoroughfares of fatalistic political prognostications for posterity to judge him. Yes! Obidients both in name and actions might seem repulsive to Prof Wole Soyinka, but none of the Obidients has so far invaded a Radio or Television Station with a pistol to announce their credible election results or, declared wanted by security agencies for acts considered to be treasonable felony as in his case during the 1965 Western Regional election. Is it not therefore absurd that the same Prof Wole Soyinka should be preaching what in his opinion is fascist or should be considered democratic in their chosen approach to retrieve their stolen mandate? The historian Prof Will Durant tells us that “Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.” Could it therefore be said that Prof Wole Soyinka has joined the class of those who are today judged according to their ability to destroy the Nigerian nation rather than produce, particularly judging from the fact that he was privy to the election of Muhammadu Buhari and automatically qualifies to be mentioned among those whose relevance in Nigerian politics today are predicated on their ability to destroy the rights of the citizens and their mandates? Recall that in 2007 Prof Wole Soyinka in one of his finest predictable analyses of the current political developments in Nigeria titled: “The Nigerian Nation against General Buhari” on January 14, 2007 issue of Sahara Reporters, stated at length in his opposition to Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential ambition: “Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari. The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order. Buhari – need one remind anyone—was one of the Generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. But as unpredictable as he was, the same Prof Wole Soyinka in 2015 become Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential iconic campaign propagandist. In an article titled Wole Soyinka, “THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE—A Burden of Choice”, published by the Guardian issue of February 7, 2017, Prof Wole Soyinka wrote his provocative support for Muhammadu Buhari in the following words: “I have studied him from a distance, questioned those who have closely interacted with him, including his former running-mate, Pastor Bakare, and dissected his key utterances past and current. And my findings? A plausible transformation that comes close to that of another ex-military dictator, Mathew Kerekou of the Benin Republic.” What could be worse for the renowned scholar than the fact that, like his failed prediction against a Donald Trump winning the United States of America Presidential election, his support for the election of a President Buhari against a President Goodluck Jonathan became the point of demystification of his much valued intellectual impregnability? In his self- demystification carried forward, Prof Wole Soyinka turned against the same Muhammadu Buhari he had so much studied to be a changed man. In an assault-like article against President Muhammadu Buhari titled “Debate on Second Term for Buhari Disgusting” and published on the Punch issue of September 12, 2017, Prof Soyinka stated at length: “Why are we talking about second term for heaven’s sake? I don’t understand this. I refuse to be part of that discussion. I absolutely refuse to be part of the discussion….Take simple security for instance. The average citizen feels less secure now than he did a few years ago; that is evident. When people talk about state police, there are reasons for it. When they talk about bringing policing right down to the community level, they know what they are talking about. This is also part and parcel of reconstruction or reconfiguration. The economy, there is a big question about it right now. Fortunately, everybody admits that we went through a very bad patch. Right now, it is a question of have we come out of it or not or there is no question at all. The past few years have been years of real internal economic disaster for the average citizen.” There is no doubt that Prof Soyinka’s failed prediction on President Buhari’s born-again democratic transparency stands him out as one of the architects of Nigeria’s present state of political precipice. How can the same man again raise his face to instruct Nigerians on the best way to remove the same political incubus he conspired to impose on them? As Nobel laureate and renowned academician with a strong sense of reflective historicism, Nigerians expect Prof Wole Soyinka to hide his face and quietly brood over his catastrophic unpredictability as a man of letters in a state of Catholic sacramental penance. |
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Angry sons and daughters are unleashing it on prof Wole Soyinka who shot verbal arrows on the OBIDIENT movement.
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Femi Fani-Kayode is getting it hot from OBIDIENTS in his recent response to the Literary guru's letter to President Biden
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