Damola Awoyokun
Damola Awoyokun, a former Associate Editor of Glendora Review, former Managing Editor of Farafina Online, lives in Ibadan. Farafina Online
Articles by this Author
On the Eliot Spitzer Affair
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 04/1/2008
- Africa & World
- Unrated
Why is Abati and many of the mainstream American media scissoring from public discourse the illegality of big brother wire-tapping with which Eliot Spitzer was caught that would have made the case not travel far in court?
Highlife: Fallacy Of Self Projection Of Benson Idonije On Rolling Dollar And Titi Oguntoyinbo
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 01/24/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Benson Idonije really loves highlife.
At times his love becomes obsessive and begins to tamper with his aesthetic
assessments...
On Lagbaja!'s Love Video, ‘Never Far Away’
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 12/15/2007
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Lagbaja! a soldier of culture, understands the authentic meaning of refreshing the traditional aesthetics, and handles it proficiently through modernisation and fusion with the sublime in urban and foreign elements...
On, The Strong Breed
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 10/11/2007
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society as its representative, its curator of memory, its specialist of consciousness, and its looming conscience...
The Case for Indecent Dressing
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 09/12/2007
- Religion & Philosophy
- Unrated
The need to prostrate before an idea, to one vision of perfection, to get addicted to a programmed way of life is the bequest of the Islam and Christianity gripping us till date...
Open Letter To Lagos State Police Commissioner
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 08/2/2007
- Miscellaneous
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We know you are new to the job, expectedly there will be lots of Initial Gra Gra. But your policy of arresting and arraigning our Lagos
Abortion, The Vatican and Amnesty International
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 06/22/2007
- Religion & Philosophy
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The call for Catholics to refuse membership of and refuse to finance Amnesty International because of its new ‘pro-abortion about-turn’ by Cardinal Renato Martino of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace is at best condemnable...
Darfur and the Necessary Boycott of Beijing Olympics
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 06/20/2007
- Africa & World
- Unrated
We call on the Nigerian government to rally all other African nations to boycott the Beijing Olympics next year should China still insist on its deadly intimacy with the Sudanese government...
The Rise And Rise Of Scripture Fundamentalism
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 05/24/2007
- Religion & Philosophy
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Is the Bible the word of God or the Bible includes the word of God? As a non-Jew with an intimate affinity with oppressed classes, I do not read the Bible for absolute facts, I read it for clues...
The Yahoo Generation And The Triple Tropes Of Sleaze
- By Damola Awoyokun
- Published 03/31/2007
- Position Papers
- Unrated
The exemplary writer is a broker in madness because therein lies the powers of the new. And so when a writer accuses the other of being mad, we should ask what is his definition of madness? In the service of what idea is this definition and in whose interest is this idea?
