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Pa Ikhide

Kennedy Emetulu on the new Wole Soyinka and fascism

— A Must Read

11 min readApr 13, 2023

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Pa Ikhide

My essay: Art in the age of anxieties (First Published, April 2020)

What is the role of the artist in the age of the Corona virus? What does the artist see, feel, hear, taste in the new sea of anxieties? Who…

5 min readJun 13, 2021

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Pa Ikhide

Two Doors Down: Buhari’s Hell and The Crimes of Nigerian Intellectuals

The 1985 murder of 26-year old Bernard Ogedengbe by Buhari haunts me. It’s as if I let him down by failing to convince Nigerians that…

6 min readJun 13, 2021

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Two Doors Down: Buhari’s Hell and The Crimes of Nigerian Intellectuals

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Pa Ikhide

Art in the age of anxieties

(Published April 2020)

6 min readMar 13, 2021

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Art in the age of anxieties

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Pa Ikhide

On ASUU, the Federal Government, Nigeria and Naijanet

Oh Beautiful People,

3 min readDec 19, 2020

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On ASUU, the Federal Government, Nigeria and Naijanet

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Pa Ikhide

Writers as Goebbels: Nigerian literature as a tool of oppression

I am angry. Nigeria is eating her young. Again. This is not the first time. Nigeria has been feasting on the blood of the poor for decades…

3 min readOct 21, 2020

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Writers as Goebbels: Nigerian literature as a tool of oppression

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Pa Ikhide

#EndSARS: On that open letter from African writers

African writers have written an open letter to the world, I guess, on #Endsars which could be reduced to a short tweet: “Because the dead…

2 min readOct 17, 2020

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#EndSARS: On that open letter from African writers

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Pa Ikhide

On The Cadwaladr Quests: ‪Tangled Times by S. L. Ager

The advent of social media and digital content on the Internet has had the perhaps unintended consequence of providing intense competition…

2 min readMar 7, 2020

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On The Cadwaladr Quests: ‪Tangled Times by S. L. Ager

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Pa Ikhide

An ordeal: Getting a new bank account at GTB

In December 2019, based on a survey of banks folks preferred to use online, my wife and I settled on Guaranteed Trust Bank (@gtbank). They…

4 min readFeb 20, 2020

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Pa Ikhide

Tweets at dawn… Who wants my brief bag?

America. Most mornings, I grab my brief bag and go to work. It’s always the same routine. Roll out of bed, take a shower, dress up, grab…

3 min readJan 19, 2020

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Pa Ikhide

Pa Ikhide

1.91K Followers

Lord of the Gourds. I am not a writer. I am a reader who writes. Highly opinionated to the point of distraction. The book and the library are dying. Ideas live.

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