GOD IS NOT A DRAGON
A lot of empirical evidence, quotidian lifestyle of humans predominantly the Negroids and Africans portray the fictitious mindset towards the s…
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I Am an African by Wayne Visser
I am an African Not because I was born there But because my heart beats with Africa's I am an African Not because my skin is black But b…
Art, History and Criticism
Art, History and Criticism By Adewole Okuwafemi (OBJ) In addition to the on going intellectual submissions. History is the past and mostly viewed by …
A Critical Appraisal of Fela Kuti's Zombie by Taiwo Daniel
Abstract : Criticism is like a lens use to read any literature. According to Jonathan Culler, criticism is defined as the general account of the wo…
Oluwamarc: Death in My Dreams
Circles of blood graced the terrace that led to ogele's river, could this be an Hunter's handiwork, no it couldn't have been, as I rememb…
Letter to my Future First Child by Oloyede
A Letter to My Future First Child. Hello my young one, You seems to enjoy the bliss of the yonder realm so much that I saw you yestermight running in…
The Novel as Africa Specific or Borrowed___ An Explicit Elucidation by Olatuja Oloyede
I “Human beings have always have stories to tell and as our species evolve, so is our means of self-expression … and our need to and our need to pres…
Download the full text of The Crucible by Arthur Miller
small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year 1692. There is a narrow window at the left…
OKONKWO IN THINGS FALL APART AS AN ARISTOTELEAN TRAGIC HERO by Olatuja Oloyede
In Poetics of Aristotle (384 -322BC), Aristotle asserts that a tragic hero is a character that has risen to a lofty height of prominence only to be c…
The Didactic, Entertainment and Affective Function of Literature by Olatuja Oloyede
INTRODUCTION Literature being a multifaceted phenomenon has never been given a univocal definition, nether is there any catholic or conventional expl…
NEARER THAN HE THOUGHT
I was reading, some time ago, of a young man who had just come out of a saloon, and had mounted his horse. As a certain deacon passed on his way to c…
A FATHER'S NEGLECT
A story has gone the round of the American press that made a great impression upon me as a father. A father took his little child out into the field …
PEACE DECLARED
Peace Declared When France and England were at war once a French vessel had gone off on a long whaling voyage. When they came back, the crew were sho…
Mother's Love ( A True Story)
YOU JUST HAVE TO READ THIS This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the China Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescu…
The Race by unknown
THE RACE This is a poem written by an unknown person. It tells the story of a young boy competing in a race he desperately wants to win. But He has f…
My Death My Joy by Oloyede Olatuja
MY DEATH IS MY JOY ~ "How I cherish the day of death, Like the golden rays of my breath. For this my soul awaits, The opening of the pearly gate…