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Ogboni cult in Beta Edu and T.B. Joshua | Festus Adedayo
The “Edan” is a Yoruba Ogboni cult insignia, an emblem of membership in the Ogboni society. It is a cylindrical duality of male and...
As Fubara presses the nuclear button | Festus Adedayo
If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British...
Tinubu’s lost war in Niger as Sigidi | Festus Adedayo
Yoruba have a way with the Sigidi, whose closest modern translation is the robot. So when the Sigidi – a moulded clay effigy –...
Emefiele, El-Rufai, Aregbesola and their Bata drums | Festus Adedayo
The Batá is a Yoruba drum that is in a class of its own. It used to be highly venerated in social and political...
Will north, the Shrew, bite the APC’s nose? | Festus Adedayo
The ongoing fight-to-finish for principal officers’ positions in the 10th National Assembly by the All Progressives Congress (APC) has only one fitting corollary: It...
