“You know PENKELEMESI! But do you know EBULLITION?”, By Onigegewura
I was holding a copy of Wole Soyinka’s IBADAN – The Penkelemesi Years. I didn’t notice that the elderly man beside me was looking at the book. Suddenly he nudged me slightly and asked in an unmistakable Ibadan accent: “You know Penkelemesi?” I nodded. Of course, like most young people who grew up in the […]
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