Besouro is an action-packed movie, set in 1920s Bahia, and based on the life of a legendary capoeirista slave who uses the power of Candomble to fight the cruel conditions suffered by the black people in Brazil. In the movie, you will be fascinated to hear the names of Yoruba gods such as Ogun [...]
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My home town is called Oyan. A very small area, situated in Osun State, South-western Nigeria. My home town I would say, is an agriculturally oriented place because it consists of farmers, there we have enough food from farm products. My home has a lot of beautiful and attractive features which appeal to both indigenes [...]
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…Omo olókè tó mòkè ngùn “ A clear sky soars above the gently winding Akure-Idanre road, and the bright sun accentuates the brightly coloured jerseys of a hundred marathon athletes dotting the stretch between the two towns. It is Mare festival day 2, and the events had been kicked off by a marathon race from [...]
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Mare Festival… …beginning of beautiful things in Idanre. Big clouds of smooth and dry dust coloured the skies of Methodist Grammar School, Idanre, in Ondo State. Sitting at the foot of the massive Ojimoba mountain, the ancient school is the venue of this year’s Mare Festival and the steep slopes of Ojimoba itself [...]
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Despite the fact that we have few amenities, my people still survive. What a beautiful and amazing thing!! My home town does not have good roads and water, yet they get their water from the streams and use foot paths as short-cuts… I hope that all I have written, both the good and bad sides [...]
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Spotlessness dissolves into elusiveness as the stainless plunge of a river is swallowed in the belly of a stygian cave, hidden away in the pocket of a deep gorge incised on the slopes of Miliken Hill, located in the ancient coal city of Enugu, Enugu State. The sun is high in the skies, its [...]
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Here comes Naijatreks Young Writers’ Contest for Nigerian primary and secondary school students, aimed at arousing their intellectual consciousness towards the tourism potentials in their environment. The overall mission here is to encourage them to turn these potentials into enterprises, which will be beneficial to them and the society at large. In order to achieve [...]
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