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...

I attended the 319th Inaugural Lecture of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria, titled, "BEYOND THE TEXT: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND THE QUEST FOR MEANING IN CYBERSPACE INTERACTION", delivered at Oduduwa Hall on Tuesday, 22nd May, 2018 by Professor of English Language, Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, under the distinguished chairmanship of The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Eyitope O. Ogunbodede. Having read the inaugural lecture, I will like to share some extracts with my readers. Happy reading! "As an applied linguist, my attention has been drawn to the 'array of linguistic possibilities' in the interactive text-based and relatively new ways of communicating in cyberspace. My goal is to see how participants construct and negotiate discursive meaning." - Olurotimi Olorunfemi Taiwo, Professor of English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University. "What I choose to call " Cyberspace Interaction" in this lectu...

The identity of a very fine man is his handsomeness, the type everyone sees, becomes struck and cannot afford to fail to love and compliment. Such a great gift from God to masculine beneficiaries is found, explored in one of the most celebrated elegant male students of the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-ife, Nigeria, Mr UK Nigeria, Danidinho. Meet OAU's part three asset whose radiance, allure, frankness and candour about himself and his careers as a student and model are impressive. Besides, his is a life story which can inspire readers. I am sharing happily right away. Happy reading. Download The Bukolapedia Android App For Instant Access to The Latest Posts  Can we meet you, Mr Handsome? I am Tiamiyu Daniel Oluwafemi. Born into a family of six, one blessed with a set of twins who are my elders and a doting younger, beautiful one, I was bred in Felele, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. I am an undergraduate of Obafemi Awolowo ...

Happy New Year Dear Readers. Hope you are doing great. Let's start this new year on a wonderful note. I have a delicious, memorable experience to share with you. Words never fail to accomplish their common mission to describe the describable and the indescribable profitably. Of course, anything that places one within the confines of one's hope of it is said to be "easily describable". Besides the moment one beholds someone or something and catches a beautiful feeling that stretches beyond the boundary of one's anticipation, one is influenced to qualify the object of affection as simply "difficult to be described". Moreover, when the nature, magnitude of the worth of an object of attention beats one's preconceptions extremely like a heavy rain and leaves one drenched, shivering with a flood of astounding enthusiasm, it can be honestly described as "indescribable". "Indescribable" was the exact feeling I conceived on the sp...

  Talents are assets which can be taken for granted by ignorance, negligence or omission. By ignorance, I mean lack of awareness about the need to discover, develop and promote talents for the benefit of the gifted and humanity as a whole. While ignorance is a big problem, negligence is a bigger problem. Human negligence is a worse misfortune as many important things, including contributing immensely to the uncovering and the advancement of talents are left unattended to. Mortal omissions could be insignificant or fatal. Letting talents lie untapped or letting realised ones waste, especially due to needless handicapping deprivations are instances of fatal mortal omissions. They produce fatal consequences. Growing minds become helpless, hopeless and remain unprogressive. Affected youths who are being counted on as the future of the society will be rendered empty even with their endowment full to capacity staying unutilized and perishing. They will be rendered incapable of (M...

It was Friday morning, March 31, 2017. It clocked a bitter reality that bereavement visited five days earlier. The worst, permanently done was to be affirmed. Dawn was sober. Grief was written boldly on its tearful face, coupled with the obvious that whispers of the air suggested doom, which the sun saw and hid itself behind the clouds for as long as daybreak lasted as an exhibition of its sympathy and solidarity. The earth was moved to a devastating quake. It stared, frowned, obviously aggrieved by the call of the unquestionable, the unstoppable, to one of our very young, vibrant, gentle, lovely priceless jewels, Taiwo Oyejola, to embark on an inevitable eternal journey to the beyond meant for the aged only. It was grossly untimely and most unfortunate that she heeded the inescapable summon on March 27, 2017 after a brief illness. Ruin was so disrespectful of the girl’s living age such that it shortened her lifespan abruptly to the disappointment of one and all. The incident, th...

Mozambique Hall was in one of its finest of mornings, fully awake, reasonably hustling and maximally bustling. It was rejoicing in the euphoria of the sweetness of dawn that crowned memories of the passing lecture free week, urging a more serious preparation for the forthcoming examinations and exhibiting hopes of general successful performance and results for the rain semester, girlishly, genially and gracefully, when, the heroes, the giants, the elephants, the lions and the kings of Awolowo Hall barged in like a storm with ‘glad tidings’ to the heroines, the giantesses, the lionesses and the queens. While an effective public address system announced their arrival, their mission was pronounced from room-to-room in a very embracing manner. It was Ewa Day. They needed ‘wife materials’ to help separate the chaff from large quantities of beans. They were armed with masculine gestures, so tender, so endearing, so urging, that short, tall, fat, slim, plump, fair or dark ski...