'Abiku' is an interesting word in Nigeria literary sphere, Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road is based upon an abiku. Here are 3 other poems on Abiku you should read. 'Abiku' is an interesting word in ...

In vain your bangles castCharmed circles at my feet; I am Abiku, calling for the firstAnd the repeated time.Must I weep for goats and cowriesFor palm oil and the sprinkled ash? Yams do not sprout in ...

The above quotation is the opening stanza in the eight-paragraph poem titled Abiku by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Abiku in Yoruba folklore refers to a child that is predestined to die. The child ...

The just concluded Irep Film Festival held in Lagos offered bigger opportunities to showcase a lot of local films that had been waiting for attention. Attention was deliberately directed at local ...

Nairobi — Reflecting on events in Zimbabwe and much of Africa over the recent past, one cannot help but despair that the African state behaves like an abiku child. The abiku is a spirit child that is ...

At 14, Ogunwande left his father’s house for the clinic of a renowned olóòlà, the penis stylist in Akeetan, his Oyo hometown, and declared his mission to have the foreskin of his manhood surgically ...

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Abiku : see what improved child care and immunisation have done to Yoruba abiku names! Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...