THE SOCIAL INTROSPECT

  “Oooh! Save us from old wines” He once headed the council of chiefs Together they became a gang of thieves Pilfering the commonwealth Eating the gains and drinking the peoples sweat By time and chance they became ousted And the community witnessed some rest Many; thinking they had accepted their wrongs of acute misdemeanor, Went on honeymoon spree. Alas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gbenga, kiku and the rest erupts from their hiding tunnel, Stretching forth fingers to the air trying to make atonement Even baba sanjo secretly manipulates He just can’t get his hands off the national chocolate Every four 365, the brethren keeps buying new skins Hoping to pour in new wine But the vendor betrays, He still secretly brings in the expired wines And somewhat mixes it with some drop of new ones   But when the assumed new wine gets into the belly Some aches starts telling But the belly owner tells the belly to bear, That the aches’ only got anothe

In the race for progressive societies, the quest for modernity and advancement; the basic form of Government universally agreed and accepted as constituting the most ideal and potent for promoting the platform and umbrella for individual self expression, development, and advancement without repression of any sort Is Democracy; the Government of the people, by the people and for the people according to Abraham Lincoln. It is rather unfortunate that since the attainment of independence by 98% of African nations, many have witnessed democratic - dictatorial regimes, as far stretched as the past can be recollected. This is a paradoxical situation that throws one into some moments of “awe”, from south Sudan’s Omar al – Bashir (28 years rule and counting) to Paul Biya of Cameroon (35 years and still counting), down to Paul Kagame of Rwanda (17 years and still counting) and recently ousted former presidents in Yahyah Jammeh and Robert Mugabe of Gambia and Zimbabwe respectively. The rule

From Methuselah’s 969 Now, the best we get is a blinking 99 Ever moving in a jet jacket Still we lie early beneath the ground in quick blankets From the stretch of the wanderers feet To the array of our Ferrari’s fleet Zooming off thro and fro And this time we are meeting our greatest woes It’s like speeding to crawl Our ever smart inventions With the sanest intentions But bang!! Comes the collision, Even the guards harm with the assorted guns The rich cries the poor cries Alas!! Who’s going to help tame the time fly Sleep is quick, food is quick, and death is quick Sight and strength are weak Bowing to the gripping hands called “sprint”. The manipulated is fast overriding the true and orderly We’re edging towards the full knowledge world But the more we know the more we don’t know Many are the things yet shown Before jets start plying the street Who knows if many would be 2 or 3? The more we go the more we go!!! @Bolaj

  “SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE BEAUTY OF CULTURAL CONVERGENCE” (THE LAGOS CASE STUDY) BY   BOLAJI OLANIBA One of the important factors that lubricates and checkmate the frictions inherent in multicultural societies is the presence of social development; which entails the establishment of adequate and sustainable infrastructures and the availability of equal opportunities for members of every ethnic, cultural, religious groups present in that society to access and move up the rungs of Socio - economic Ladder via the societal/lawfully prescribed way without restrictions of any kind. It is of no doubt that many Nations are plunged into this phenomenon, while some have chosen to see and live with it from a “Rainbow perspective” and work with it as such, with fruitful results and sound social development becoming the aftermaths, others have seen it as an unfortunate taboo that must be revoked; thereby leading to the creation of War situation and destruction on the assumed ba