by fisayo | Dec 28, 2022 | Education, Social Issues
It is interesting how the first-morning nudge, after opening one’s eyes to the world is to reach for the mobile phone. That morning, I woke up without saying a word of prayer nor did I get up to brush my teeth but to catch up on social media feeds. I found...
by fisayo | Jan 3, 2022 | Gender Discourse, Social Issues, social policy, Work and labor
Image by Lucy Guiterrez (Copied from NYtimes) Women’s labor market participation in Africa and the West can be traced back to the impact of the second world war, feminism, and women’s emancipation movements. As a result of women’s labor market...
by fisayo | Oct 19, 2021 | Poems, Social Issues
I thought I would easily forget Alas, here I am wondering if the protest happened The polices in their cloaks Shooting Tear-gassing Burning cars Killing Maiming The soldiers in their cloaks Shooting “blanks” At harmless young Nigerians From Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan,...
by fisayo | Aug 26, 2021 | Movie Review, Movie review, Social Issues, Uncategorized
The King of Boys movie made the Nigerian cinemas in 2018 and by 2019 it was on Netflix. The movie is coming back on Netflix on August 27, 2021, as a 7-part series and a Netflix original production and not as a Nigerian cinema production. This is an anticipated...
by fisayo | Aug 12, 2021 | Social Issues
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.W.B Yeats, Second Coming 1920 This stanza from W.B Yeats’s 1920 poem The Second Coming begs wholesome...
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