Bukola Olafenwa

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 ...

I am excited by the seriousness of the screams garnered, packaged in my last piece, demanding that I should tell the world the only crime every woman commits in my immediate next piece or remain silent about it forever.  While I apologise for making three indifferent publications after that alongside pretending not to feel you are almost tired of visualising beauties conceiving, nurturing, giving birth to the same inelegant, unknown crime, laughter fills my mouth with lips I dare not pout against the reactions because my respect for them is unflinching; they have an obvious aim to provoke me to open the door of my heart, let go of the fear of possible, heavy damages to me and the womenfolk, let in the wildness of a lioness, devour my fears as preys and sing the libelous song mellifluously, with pride. Download The Bukolapedia Android App For Instant Access to The Latest Posts  Take it from me that every human is obliged to obey provisions enshrined in a na...

Have we sublimely or deliberately undervalued youthfulness as an indication of sheer immaturity and incapability, bestowed this unfair opinion-cum-act fully with the power to undo the youth, mar their personal and collective, great leadership dreams, plans, chances in one way or the other? Are we guilty of observing, passing on the belief that they are too young to be steady to hurting, harmful degrees? Have we become loyal followers of the myth that they have to wait until a tomorrow comes before they can be considered worthy of leadership positions? These are questions we ought to ask ourselves. They deserve sincere answers. I hope we are innocent. Refuting responses should be supported by proofs. Besides, I dare say that today must provide crucial discovery, testing and training grounds for the development, advancement of the youth's leadership potentials, skills so that they would be fully equipped with the necessary experience to be resourceful, dependable, pr...

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...

Recently, the ice was broken. I was confronted with a question, the biggest ever. It crossed my path absolutely out of the blue that my heart missed a beat the moment it darted into me. It was a challenge simple on the face but complex at heart; it grasped, nabbed, captured me firmly. It was an enquiry very thirsty for a rapid reliable response, so hungry to be fed, satisfied with a veritable, valid answer. It was so fragile, evoking, brainstorming, compelling and kindling that I broke out in a sweat at the very thought of how I would carry it in my mental faculty without letting it drop, shatter, and handle it appropriately. I had only one choice; I had just a few moments to search everywhere, everything inside of me, to find and provide an objective reaction. I started at the drop of a hat. I housebroke, ransacked my past, stole everything relevant it contained; enticed my present, gained and explored an access into its whole, and embezzled its germane composition;...

Women! So, what about them? I am sure "we" have too much to say about them. Yes, we, the observers, writers of their sins. The list of crimes they commit is huge, revealing. It contains light and serious crimes capable of stunning sights, appalling auditory canals, blowing brains, hitting hearts, knocking mouths over with feather, petrifying and exorcising ignorance, stimulating athletic thoughts and engaging them in simultaneous or consecutive races to destinations where they are transformed into rigid views, opinions, beliefs about women; hence, a mere insinuation that there is one crime they commit sounds as an headline that may have something new under the sun to offer us. Download The Bukolapedia Android App and Instant Access to The Latest Posts  Bukola, it is disappointing that you have only made us smell the inviting aroma of what is baking in the oven that our minds can hardly imagine; you have abducted, hidden and abandoned us in wonderland, cause...