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Manchester United has signed Odion Ighalo on a six month loan deal. Odion Ighalo who rejected a bid from Barcelona because starting games was not guaranteed has been signed by the Red Devils with a weekly wage of 300,000 pounds a week. Ighalo posted, after the deal, on his Twitter account that he serves a living God. The thirty year old's contract might be made permanent at the end of the season. He has also made history by being the first Nigerian to play for Manchester United. Here are what some Nigerians said on Twitter about the deal: Mbah has said it all by converting Ighalo's weekly wages in pounds into Naira. Ighalo is making a fortune already.

According to Chinua Achebe, as stated in the Author’s biography, “Come Away my Love” is a love poem. It is a love poem about the trials and tribulation of a love affair between a black man from Kenya and a white woman from England. Analogously, it is about the embodiment of altercations experienced in an inter-racial relationship. That is, this will be the same issue encountered by an Asian espoused to a European/American, or an Indian alongside an African. Being a love poem, the title of the poem gives a hint about the typical lovers’ activities. They come away from the public eyes into a secret/romantic environment where there love, affection and energy can be optimally consummated. However, another meaning can be derived from this title. The meaning that can be derived is that the persona is asking his lover to rendezvous at a secret location away from the society that has proven counterproductive towards their love. The society has been an inhibiting factor for their love be...

JOSEPH KARIUKI’S BIOGRAPHY. A lot of commentary is written on his existence on earth, but just a little was mentioned about his birth, death, Alma Matter and about his existence. The little that is known about him states that he is a Kenyan, born in Banana Hill. He is educated both in Kenya and abroad: at Makerere and Cambridge.  He is popular for his famous poem which is an ode to the former Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta.   However, nothing was said about his date of birth, parents, marriage, occupation and his childhood. Chinua Achebe’s comment about Kariuki goes thus: that he has met Joseph Kariuki through his poems, especially through his love poem “Come Away my Love”.  He opined that the poem is about the trials and tensions of an African in love with a white girl in Britain.

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION ABOUT WHAT THE POEM ENTAILS. This analysis mirrors the interpretation of Tanure Ojaide’s “The Fate of Vultures and Other Poems” as a text that functions as a conduit of vituperation. What this means is that writers often turn to their crafts (in this case, poetry) to voice their opinion on prevalent issues in the society. This is possible because writers such as Ojaide are categorized among writers with a social conscience. Tanure Ojaide is a poet who cares deeply for the people (especially, the masses) in his society. He cares about the plight of the poor, the uneducated, the un-exposed, the less priviledged and victims of numerous societal injusties. This analysis endeavors to exemplify the areas that the poet, in this collection, expresses his social conscience nature. Certain poems in Ojaide’s “The Fate of Vultures and Other Poems” would be interpreted in line with the theme of a writer with a social consciousness, and as a writer that is an activist...