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Here's the story of two jolly friends, Làbàkẹ́ and Àbíkẹ́. They were interested in their own progress and worked together towards achieving it. Làbàkẹ́ was a farmer and Àbíkẹ́ a business merchant. There came one season when the earth was angry at the destructive activities of human being on the ecosystem. And the  land became hostile to the growth of Plants. Famine descended swiftly upon all animals and humans. Àbíkẹ́ decided to assist Làbàkẹ́'s plague and called her friend to her room. There she handed to her the magic box that her grandfather gave her years ago. This box had the ability to sustain plants growth without the need for soil nor water. And so it was that Làbàkẹ́ became wealthy because her crops started yielding bounteous harvest. Months passed by, and Àbíkẹ́ gave birth to a child of her own. But there's a problem: the child needed a magic necklace so as not to die young. The only person with this necklace was Làbàkẹ́ , and she gave her friend's c...

Humans of Lagos "I hate it when a culture tries to subsume other cultures. I get infuriated when people tries to force me to comporting myself to modernised eating norms. For goodness sake, morsel food is eaten with hands in my cultural heritage. My ancestors ate swallows with their hands. And they were never ashamed of it. I don't know who's trying to punish people like me by introducing cutlery to the eating of precious Ẹ̀bà, exciting Iyán and tantalizing Àmàlà. Struggling with a fork and a knife, exerting the little energy left in me to wrestle with meats and swallows is no cultural evolution. It's rather a gross degradation and violation of the ancient trademark. I mistakenly poured soup cooked in palm oil on my sparkling white dress in the name of modernity. This use of cutlery for swallows is not funny. We can't retrogress to another mental slavery. ©FERT, 2017