Jun 13, 2022AWE’S FIRST MUSICAL ANECDOTE ABOUT FRIENDSHIP; REASON MEMUSIC REVIEW: AWE’S FIRST MUSICAL ANECDOTE ABOUT FRIENDSHIP; REASON ME Reason me — This particular phrase is not a colloquial word in our contemporary society, especially among people who are vagrants and street urchins. Although, these people use this phrase as a subject to relate to life’s expedient. Just as life is not fun without betrayal; and it is when…Music Review5 min readMusic Review5 min read
Mar 23, 2022NIGERIA IS THE DARKNESS OF VISIBLENIGERIA IS THE DARKNESS OF VISIBLE Anikulapo Macmillan. I will like to start this essay with a flashback from history. I know many of us are not born when this incident happened, but guess what? It is now a phrase of coincidence- Darkness Visible During the administration of Yakubu Gowon…5 min read5 min read
Mar 17, 2022OUR SCHOOLS HAVE GONE ON STRIKEOUR SCHOOLS HAVE GONE ON STRIKE Anikulapo Macmillan. I know you would think this title is the same conation as Ola Rotimi’s play ‘’ our husband has gone mad again ‘’ but our title here is to address the deteriorating condition of Nigeria’s education system just because it is now…5 min read5 min read
Mar 9, 2022MURDER IN THE BUSMURDER IN THE BUS Ankulapo Macmillan The Grief in this direful bus was somewhat like the grief in T.S Eliot’s prosaic drama: murder in the Cathedral. That particular drama is known as his best play, and his only completed work of historical drama. Although, our drama here, is sanguinary because…6 min read6 min read
Oct 22, 2021EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LOVE TO WORK WITH BURNABOY SOON, SAYS KENDRICK AWE.EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LOVE TO WORK WITH BURNABOY SOON, SAYS KENDRICK AWE. A popular German philosopher, of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche, in one of his famous works, says; without music, life is a mistake. So, if someone should look at his view critically, one would get his point and juxtapose…Music7 min readMusic7 min read
Nov 13, 2020BOOK REVIEW: THE NASCENT POETRY OF TUPAC IN PAGEBOOK REVIEW: THE NASCENT POETRY OF TUPAC IN PAGE By: Babatunde Alaran ‘’ You always was committed, a poor single mother on welfare, tell me How you did it. There’s no way I can pay you back ‘’ This aforementioned lyric is from Tupac’s famous track, Dear Mama and it…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Nov 4, 2020LEKKI TOLL GATE POSTSCRIPTBy Babatunde Alaran I blood was chaste into the sky, before the camouflage men sent her flag to a cannoned stain what a rhetoric! was it a genteel circumstance or the scene was grotesque for this gruesome killing? the sky was indeed a monochrome with misfortune — 20–10–20 when the…Poetry On Medium2 min readPoetry On Medium2 min read
Jul 22, 2020THE DIRGE OF ABSENCEBy: Babatunde Alaran I The night circumvents the sun And spew to an unsparing gods; Before the deluge comes in the noon For a profound goodbye And there is an incantation by the chanteuse To the reflection of the facade cloud, Then it fleeces upon the shadow of A tendril…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Jul 5, 2020MUSIC REVIEW: THE JOIE DE VIVRE IN BANKU BY TEEDIZBabatunde Alaran This is an entertaining song you need to listen too. It has gyration that makes it to be pristine. Also, it has an African genre from it intro which paradoxically is arcane. Teediz describes Banku to be metaphor or euphemism because the word means something else to every…Music Review2 min readMusic Review2 min read
Jun 25, 2020MUSIC REVIEW: AWE’S ARONDA WITH A CHILDHOOD MYTH.Babatunde Alaran. I have intermittently sunk myself to the ontology, in which his music enacts whenever I listen to. Starting from his previous track to this particular track, Awe’s style has transcended to become phenomenal in the hornet of up-coming-star in the music industry. Seriously, when you listen to his…Music Review3 min readMusic Review3 min read
