SELECTING TRADITIONS: DEATH IN AFRICAN FAMILIES – RITES, RITUALS AND DEMONS
Marry a white person, you’ll only have to buy a casket and mark a plot in the cemetery!
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GERONTOCRACY IN AFRICA: THE WISDOM OF THE OLD AND THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE YOUTH
What an elder can see while sitting, a young lad wouldn’t be able to catch a glimpse even if he climbs a tree.
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Are you single?
What are you going to be doing on Valentine’s Day?
We asked some tribesmen, all single, of course, to tell us what they’d be doing on Valentine’s Day.
Why Literary Organisations Ask For Previously Unpublished Entries
A number of people still view publications from the stand point of what it was some years back when the only thing considered as published are those ones put down in black and white as hard copies. This would still remain the truth in the absence of evolving technology.The evolution of technology has undeniably changed …
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Poet Laureate Interviews: Meet Temitope Komolafe
I am Temitope Komolafe, a student of Medicine and Surgery in University of Ibadan. I am a very spiritual person and I believe God is and should be the integral factor in life. I write and specialize in screenwriting. I love reading and am very open to learning from everything because I have come to discover that the more we know, the more we discover how much we don’t know
And The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is…
by Damola Oluwemimo We would be looking at a few people who fought for the lives of blacks and helped to bring peace to oppressed African countries. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Was born on October 29, 1938, in Monrovia, Liberia. She married in the year 1956 to James Sirleaf and was 17 at that time. She …
How To Write Literary Fiction
by Ololade Edun 14 Simple Writing Tips for Fiction Writers 1. Know how to differentiate between ‘I am/I’m/am’ & ‘too/to/two’ 2. Stop switching possessives with contractions. Know best how to differentiate between denotations and connotations 3. ‘There/Their/They’re’ & ‘Where/Were/Where’re’ are words you shouldn’t mix their usage 4. Active always win passive. And weak words deserves …
November: Why African Narratives Change
TVO TRIBE presents an open call for articles, poems, personal accounts, photos, etc on the community’s theme for November; Why African Narratives Change. This is a pursuance to see the evolutionary nature and design of African stories and Storytellers. All contributors are therefore required to submit works that relate to this theme. PLEASE NOTE THE …