By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, September 4, 2026) A sibling going to bury the corpse of his elder brother naked should take his younger brother along. Why? Because the way today’s corpse is buried naked is how tomorrow’s corpse would be buried. That is a Yoruba thought on
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 14, 2026) A musical genre rarely dies on the day its last great musician dies. It dies more quietly, when generations stop hearing themselves in the music. This, most probably, may be the real trouble with Jùjú. Bathwater cascades from the head to the feet, […]
By Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, August 7, 2016) Across the world’s seven continents and among its eight billion inhabitants, every creation story bears the same themes of void, force, and formation. The ancestries differ, the myths diverge, but the trilogy is forged on the same anvil of chaos-creation-calm. At the dusk […]



