Bukola Olafenwa

Taking a rest after supper, I basked effortlessly in the echoed glory, uniqueness, significance of the 320th inaugural lecture in the series of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria, titled, "LIVING OUR STORIES IN AFRICA: FICTION, FICTIONALITY AND THE WISDOM OF UNCERTAINTY", delivered by Professor of Literature-in-English, Chima Anyadike at Oduduwa Hall on Tuesday, 12th June, 2018. Prof Chima Anyadike and I Cheerfully, I picked, opened its published version and was richly entertained over and over again by its invaluable content. The inaugural lecture starts on an elaborately enlightening note. The giant academia's expressions wrapped in the very first paragraph note that "our individual and collective lives in Africa today are shaped in significant ways, not just by the nature of our natural and social environments, but also by the actions resulting from the stories we tell ourselves and the ones told or written by others about us and our continen...

Isn't it high time I published another interesting edition of this very captivating topic? Even if the crime is bigger, taller than Mount Everest, it can, and will surely be cast out of our list of worries, ultimately, into the world of a memorable extinction. I am willing, ready to cooperate with words to realise your need: to know the crime, but... Download The Bukolapedia Android App and Instant Access to The Latest Posts  But, my eagerness has just been smashed into pieces. I can hear someone scream, "This topic again?"  Why the scream? What is wrong or bad about the topic? Is it scary? Oh! It is a topic Bukola has refused to bless with the revelation of the crime? If this is what you are thinking, then you are thinking what I really think you are thinking. Hmmmn... The truth is, the thought is dangerous when it is deep; too much of everything, including thinking too much about what you ought not to be thinking at all is bad, especially on health grou...

Most humans are absorbers. However, the quality of our common, striking absorbent feature varies. While some own an inferior version, others exhibit the superior type. An inferior absorber has a small store for adaptation or adjustment to social dynamics. They try in vain to assimilate beyond the capacity of their mental tank. Consequently, they let the excess of whatever is to be contained run over in various forms and degrees of reactions. Trust a superior absorber. Superior absorbers are blessed. They have a common store as large as the cooking pot of a mother of fifteen children where everything absorbable can be kept. They are innately enduring. Only extremities pose problems to their able storage solution. They lack space for elephantine, drastic, acute adversities and end up reacting accordingly.       Having done a successful description of the two categories of absorbers that exist, it is absolutely necessary to acknowledge the existence of humans who are no...