Flexslider
June 2017
English literature and literary theory
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Now if I ask you, what conditions must be in place for a suckling or baby to become a full grown man, you won't think twice before you mention certain things like good and regular feeding, right? That's right but obviously not all. Let's use this physical reality to explain the spiritual.
You know starvation can ultimately lead to death and improper feeding can cause such diseases as kwashiorkor, obesity etc. A baby Christian is expected to grow, but growth in the spirit is not automatic or instantaneous. Some conditions must be in place to make this development rapid. There is a need to constantly draw strength and nutrient from God who is our sufficiency. Reading the bible, healthy religious discussions, listening to good sermons etc are means by which the spirit man gathers strength. There is an inspiration that settles in the dreg of our soles when we hear the Word of God.
A child who grows in isolation will definitely end up having certain characteristics of his human nature underdeveloped. It is not Oloyede who says so, this is a scientific fact. Therefore, for a baby to grow healthy and strong, there is a need for relationship hence, he may for example never acquire the ability to use language. So also in Christianity. There are three strands of relationships a healthy Christian should have.
This is by far the most relevant relationship any Human being can have. This is a life in constant fellowship with the majesty of heaven. When God says I know my sheep and my sheep knows me, He is talking about relationship. When you take a step towards God, He will take a thousand more towards you. You must seek to know Christ more not just about Him. You must find Him and in the bid to find Him, He will find you instead. When was the last time you bent the kneel in prayer asking with a sincere heart to know Him more?
Though God has promised His overwhelming presence to us, but there is a dimension of God you cannot experience until you are an ardent and passionate seeker of God.
1 John 1:5-7
An isolated Christian is easily frustrated and discouraged. Just like the folktale about a lion growing among sheep. He ends up becoming just like them. You are just the product of the relationship you cherish. If you have friends who are lovers of God, whose growth are constant and progressive, you will be motivated out of mediocrity. If your religious association sees nothing bad in immaturity, you may end up revolving around the cyclic continuum of immaturity. Are your friends mediocres, is the message from the pulpit of your church making you comfortable as an average Christian, are you beginning to theologize immaturity as something acceptable, you may end up not getting out of that circle. Surround yourself with good friends who are friends of God, in whom you can see Christ.
Colossians 3:16
You cannot underestimate the roles these ones will play in giving shape and meaning to your Christian life.
All Christians who desire to be like Christ must first give a defined relationship with the world. I mean the systems and the institutions of the human realm. Those who have decided to follow Christ may sometimes encounter clear opposition from the world. You must first count the cost and choose who to please always (God or man). If not, you will end up compromising so easily. Just like the other day when I resumed work at around 7:35am and as usual, I was among the first to resume. But as we were registering our names, I wrote the correct time, but a colleague quickly corrected me to change it to 7:25am. I don't understand why but I just told him it is impossible to do so. The world will always encourage you to comprise or give up on some godly standards, you are the one who will know where your allegiance is truly placed. If it is with Christ, then don't expect to always be in good terms with the world.
You don't expect a new born baby to be as matured as a 40 year old man in a day right? So also is a new Christian. This growth we are talking about is not automatic or instantaneous. It is a continuous process, progressive and accumulative.
In our Christian walk, we sometimes face disappointments, failures etc. We fall into errors, make mistakes, rise and fall, some even fall back into the life of sin totally again. All these struggles are building in us strength for a better and more stable life. The reason why young Christians fall so often into sins is because God wants them to learn to trust Him totally, not in there own abilities. This is usually a very hard lesson and critical stage in our walk with God. We cannot obey the laws of God by mere determination or decision, such will fail woefully and miserably. We must depend solely on God daily. We must tell Him to help us live that life that gives Him glory. When will fail it fall, we should not just sit remorseful in solitary corners disappointed in ourselves, but we must as a matter of lifestyle go to God for help and grace to live a better life. Since growth doesn't happen in just one day, you are expected to grow everyday. In fact, there will never come a time when you will reach the climax of Christian growth. Anybody that stops growing starts dying.
let Christ be your role model. Let the express image of the pattern Son be your motivation. Seek to live each day like Him. To talk like Him, pray like Him, sing the kind of songs He will sing, go to places He will go.
This is a bit longer and you may want to study more about Self or the Adamic nature or the lawless man in the Bible. There are a number of good Christian literatures as well that discuss this subject in simplified details. This is the natural life in everyone who finds it impossible to please God. They find it hard and difficult to be subjected to God. No matter how good this life may sometimes claim to be, it will not stand the test of time. We all must trust in the finished work of Christ as the ultimate end of this nature and therefore bring our flesh under subjection to God no matter how displeasing. When the eyes lust, and the heart becomes proud we must not forget that our bodies are under new management now. The life of the flesh must not therefore dominate us since we have been given victory at Calvary over the dominion of sin and Satan, so we have the right to say no to the flesh and it will obey. Our body is the temple of God where God resides.
Amen
For your questions or counsel
Contact Link
📞 +2348137834509 or +2348108006178
✉oloyede001@gmail.com
🌍www.hallofalltruth.blogspot.com
© Olatuja Oloyede
June, 2017
1) Good Diet and proper feeding
1 Peter 2:2"like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation"
You know starvation can ultimately lead to death and improper feeding can cause such diseases as kwashiorkor, obesity etc. A baby Christian is expected to grow, but growth in the spirit is not automatic or instantaneous. Some conditions must be in place to make this development rapid. There is a need to constantly draw strength and nutrient from God who is our sufficiency. Reading the bible, healthy religious discussions, listening to good sermons etc are means by which the spirit man gathers strength. There is an inspiration that settles in the dreg of our soles when we hear the Word of God.
2) Relationship
A child who grows in isolation will definitely end up having certain characteristics of his human nature underdeveloped. It is not Oloyede who says so, this is a scientific fact. Therefore, for a baby to grow healthy and strong, there is a need for relationship hence, he may for example never acquire the ability to use language. So also in Christianity. There are three strands of relationships a healthy Christian should have.
A) Relationship with God
John 17:23
"I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me
This is by far the most relevant relationship any Human being can have. This is a life in constant fellowship with the majesty of heaven. When God says I know my sheep and my sheep knows me, He is talking about relationship. When you take a step towards God, He will take a thousand more towards you. You must seek to know Christ more not just about Him. You must find Him and in the bid to find Him, He will find you instead. When was the last time you bent the kneel in prayer asking with a sincere heart to know Him more?
Though God has promised His overwhelming presence to us, but there is a dimension of God you cannot experience until you are an ardent and passionate seeker of God.
B) Relationship with fellow Christians
1 John 1:5-7
"If we say that we have fellowship
with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin."
An isolated Christian is easily frustrated and discouraged. Just like the folktale about a lion growing among sheep. He ends up becoming just like them. You are just the product of the relationship you cherish. If you have friends who are lovers of God, whose growth are constant and progressive, you will be motivated out of mediocrity. If your religious association sees nothing bad in immaturity, you may end up revolving around the cyclic continuum of immaturity. Are your friends mediocres, is the message from the pulpit of your church making you comfortable as an average Christian, are you beginning to theologize immaturity as something acceptable, you may end up not getting out of that circle. Surround yourself with good friends who are friends of God, in whom you can see Christ.
Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
You cannot underestimate the roles these ones will play in giving shape and meaning to your Christian life.
C) Relationship with the World
John 2:15-17 King James Version (KJV)
Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
All Christians who desire to be like Christ must first give a defined relationship with the world. I mean the systems and the institutions of the human realm. Those who have decided to follow Christ may sometimes encounter clear opposition from the world. You must first count the cost and choose who to please always (God or man). If not, you will end up compromising so easily. Just like the other day when I resumed work at around 7:35am and as usual, I was among the first to resume. But as we were registering our names, I wrote the correct time, but a colleague quickly corrected me to change it to 7:25am. I don't understand why but I just told him it is impossible to do so. The world will always encourage you to comprise or give up on some godly standards, you are the one who will know where your allegiance is truly placed. If it is with Christ, then don't expect to always be in good terms with the world.
3) Time
You don't expect a new born baby to be as matured as a 40 year old man in a day right? So also is a new Christian. This growth we are talking about is not automatic or instantaneous. It is a continuous process, progressive and accumulative.
2 Peter 1:5&6"Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness"
In our Christian walk, we sometimes face disappointments, failures etc. We fall into errors, make mistakes, rise and fall, some even fall back into the life of sin totally again. All these struggles are building in us strength for a better and more stable life. The reason why young Christians fall so often into sins is because God wants them to learn to trust Him totally, not in there own abilities. This is usually a very hard lesson and critical stage in our walk with God. We cannot obey the laws of God by mere determination or decision, such will fail woefully and miserably. We must depend solely on God daily. We must tell Him to help us live that life that gives Him glory. When will fail it fall, we should not just sit remorseful in solitary corners disappointed in ourselves, but we must as a matter of lifestyle go to God for help and grace to live a better life. Since growth doesn't happen in just one day, you are expected to grow everyday. In fact, there will never come a time when you will reach the climax of Christian growth. Anybody that stops growing starts dying.
4) Imitate Christ
1 Peter 2:21
"For you have been called for this
purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps."
let Christ be your role model. Let the express image of the pattern Son be your motivation. Seek to live each day like Him. To talk like Him, pray like Him, sing the kind of songs He will sing, go to places He will go.
1 John 2:6
"the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as
He walked."
5) Crucify the Old Man
"We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Romans 6:6
This is a bit longer and you may want to study more about Self or the Adamic nature or the lawless man in the Bible. There are a number of good Christian literatures as well that discuss this subject in simplified details. This is the natural life in everyone who finds it impossible to please God. They find it hard and difficult to be subjected to God. No matter how good this life may sometimes claim to be, it will not stand the test of time. We all must trust in the finished work of Christ as the ultimate end of this nature and therefore bring our flesh under subjection to God no matter how displeasing. When the eyes lust, and the heart becomes proud we must not forget that our bodies are under new management now. The life of the flesh must not therefore dominate us since we have been given victory at Calvary over the dominion of sin and Satan, so we have the right to say no to the flesh and it will obey. Our body is the temple of God where God resides.
Amen
For your questions or counsel
Contact Link
📞 +2348137834509 or +2348108006178
✉oloyede001@gmail.com
🌍www.hallofalltruth.blogspot.com
Written and Complied by Olatuja Oloyede
© Olatuja Oloyede
June, 2017
Now if I ask you, what conditions must be in place for a suckling or baby to become a full grown man, you won't think twice before you mention certain things like good and regular feeding, right? That's right but obviously not all. Let's use this physical reality to explain the spiritual.
You know starvation can ultimately lead to death and improper feeding can cause such diseases as kwashiorkor, obesity etc. A baby Christian is expected to grow, but growth in the spirit is not automatic or instantaneous. Some conditions must be in place to make this development rapid. There is a need to constantly draw strength and nutrient from God who is our sufficiency. Reading the bible, healthy religious discussions, listening to good sermons etc are means by which the spirit man gathers strength. There is an inspiration that settles in the dreg of our soles when we hear the Word of God.
A child who grows in isolation will definitely end up having certain characteristics of his human nature underdeveloped. It is not Oloyede who says so, this is a scientific fact. Therefore, for a baby to grow healthy and strong, there is a need for relationship hence, he may for example never acquire the ability to use language. So also in Christianity. There are three strands of relationships a healthy Christian should have.
This is by far the most relevant relationship any Human being can have. This is a life in constant fellowship with the majesty of heaven. When God says I know my sheep and my sheep knows me, He is talking about relationship. When you take a step towards God, He will take a thousand more towards you. You must seek to know Christ more not just about Him. You must find Him and in the bid to find Him, He will find you instead. When was the last time you bent the kneel in prayer asking with a sincere heart to know Him more?
Though God has promised His overwhelming presence to us, but there is a dimension of God you cannot experience until you are an ardent and passionate seeker of God.
1 John 1:5-7
An isolated Christian is easily frustrated and discouraged. Just like the folktale about a lion growing among sheep. He ends up becoming just like them. You are just the product of the relationship you cherish. If you have friends who are lovers of God, whose growth are constant and progressive, you will be motivated out of mediocrity. If your religious association sees nothing bad in immaturity, you may end up revolving around the cyclic continuum of immaturity. Are your friends mediocres, is the message from the pulpit of your church making you comfortable as an average Christian, are you beginning to theologize immaturity as something acceptable, you may end up not getting out of that circle. Surround yourself with good friends who are friends of God, in whom you can see Christ.
Colossians 3:16
You cannot underestimate the roles these ones will play in giving shape and meaning to your Christian life.
All Christians who desire to be like Christ must first give a defined relationship with the world. I mean the systems and the institutions of the human realm. Those who have decided to follow Christ may sometimes encounter clear opposition from the world. You must first count the cost and choose who to please always (God or man). If not, you will end up compromising so easily. Just like the other day when I resumed work at around 7:35am and as usual, I was among the first to resume. But as we were registering our names, I wrote the correct time, but a colleague quickly corrected me to change it to 7:25am. I don't understand why but I just told him it is impossible to do so. The world will always encourage you to comprise or give up on some godly standards, you are the one who will know where your allegiance is truly placed. If it is with Christ, then don't expect to always be in good terms with the world.
You don't expect a new born baby to be as matured as a 40 year old man in a day right? So also is a new Christian. This growth we are talking about is not automatic or instantaneous. It is a continuous process, progressive and accumulative.
In our Christian walk, we sometimes face disappointments, failures etc. We fall into errors, make mistakes, rise and fall, some even fall back into the life of sin totally again. All these struggles are building in us strength for a better and more stable life. The reason why young Christians fall so often into sins is because God wants them to learn to trust Him totally, not in there own abilities. This is usually a very hard lesson and critical stage in our walk with God. We cannot obey the laws of God by mere determination or decision, such will fail woefully and miserably. We must depend solely on God daily. We must tell Him to help us live that life that gives Him glory. When will fail it fall, we should not just sit remorseful in solitary corners disappointed in ourselves, but we must as a matter of lifestyle go to God for help and grace to live a better life. Since growth doesn't happen in just one day, you are expected to grow everyday. In fact, there will never come a time when you will reach the climax of Christian growth. Anybody that stops growing starts dying.
let Christ be your role model. Let the express image of the pattern Son be your motivation. Seek to live each day like Him. To talk like Him, pray like Him, sing the kind of songs He will sing, go to places He will go.
This is a bit longer and you may want to study more about Self or the Adamic nature or the lawless man in the Bible. There are a number of good Christian literatures as well that discuss this subject in simplified details. This is the natural life in everyone who finds it impossible to please God. They find it hard and difficult to be subjected to God. No matter how good this life may sometimes claim to be, it will not stand the test of time. We all must trust in the finished work of Christ as the ultimate end of this nature and therefore bring our flesh under subjection to God no matter how displeasing. When the eyes lust, and the heart becomes proud we must not forget that our bodies are under new management now. The life of the flesh must not therefore dominate us since we have been given victory at Calvary over the dominion of sin and Satan, so we have the right to say no to the flesh and it will obey. Our body is the temple of God where God resides.
Amen
For your questions or counsel
Contact Link
📞 +2348137834509 or +2348108006178
✉oloyede001@gmail.com
🌍www.hallofalltruth.blogspot.com
© Olatuja Oloyede
June, 2017
1) Good Diet and proper feeding
1 Peter 2:2"like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation"
You know starvation can ultimately lead to death and improper feeding can cause such diseases as kwashiorkor, obesity etc. A baby Christian is expected to grow, but growth in the spirit is not automatic or instantaneous. Some conditions must be in place to make this development rapid. There is a need to constantly draw strength and nutrient from God who is our sufficiency. Reading the bible, healthy religious discussions, listening to good sermons etc are means by which the spirit man gathers strength. There is an inspiration that settles in the dreg of our soles when we hear the Word of God.
2) Relationship
A child who grows in isolation will definitely end up having certain characteristics of his human nature underdeveloped. It is not Oloyede who says so, this is a scientific fact. Therefore, for a baby to grow healthy and strong, there is a need for relationship hence, he may for example never acquire the ability to use language. So also in Christianity. There are three strands of relationships a healthy Christian should have.
A) Relationship with God
John 17:23
"I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me
This is by far the most relevant relationship any Human being can have. This is a life in constant fellowship with the majesty of heaven. When God says I know my sheep and my sheep knows me, He is talking about relationship. When you take a step towards God, He will take a thousand more towards you. You must seek to know Christ more not just about Him. You must find Him and in the bid to find Him, He will find you instead. When was the last time you bent the kneel in prayer asking with a sincere heart to know Him more?
Though God has promised His overwhelming presence to us, but there is a dimension of God you cannot experience until you are an ardent and passionate seeker of God.
B) Relationship with fellow Christians
1 John 1:5-7
"If we say that we have fellowship
with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin."
An isolated Christian is easily frustrated and discouraged. Just like the folktale about a lion growing among sheep. He ends up becoming just like them. You are just the product of the relationship you cherish. If you have friends who are lovers of God, whose growth are constant and progressive, you will be motivated out of mediocrity. If your religious association sees nothing bad in immaturity, you may end up revolving around the cyclic continuum of immaturity. Are your friends mediocres, is the message from the pulpit of your church making you comfortable as an average Christian, are you beginning to theologize immaturity as something acceptable, you may end up not getting out of that circle. Surround yourself with good friends who are friends of God, in whom you can see Christ.
Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
You cannot underestimate the roles these ones will play in giving shape and meaning to your Christian life.
C) Relationship with the World
John 2:15-17 King James Version (KJV)
Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
All Christians who desire to be like Christ must first give a defined relationship with the world. I mean the systems and the institutions of the human realm. Those who have decided to follow Christ may sometimes encounter clear opposition from the world. You must first count the cost and choose who to please always (God or man). If not, you will end up compromising so easily. Just like the other day when I resumed work at around 7:35am and as usual, I was among the first to resume. But as we were registering our names, I wrote the correct time, but a colleague quickly corrected me to change it to 7:25am. I don't understand why but I just told him it is impossible to do so. The world will always encourage you to comprise or give up on some godly standards, you are the one who will know where your allegiance is truly placed. If it is with Christ, then don't expect to always be in good terms with the world.
3) Time
You don't expect a new born baby to be as matured as a 40 year old man in a day right? So also is a new Christian. This growth we are talking about is not automatic or instantaneous. It is a continuous process, progressive and accumulative.
2 Peter 1:5&6"Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness"
In our Christian walk, we sometimes face disappointments, failures etc. We fall into errors, make mistakes, rise and fall, some even fall back into the life of sin totally again. All these struggles are building in us strength for a better and more stable life. The reason why young Christians fall so often into sins is because God wants them to learn to trust Him totally, not in there own abilities. This is usually a very hard lesson and critical stage in our walk with God. We cannot obey the laws of God by mere determination or decision, such will fail woefully and miserably. We must depend solely on God daily. We must tell Him to help us live that life that gives Him glory. When will fail it fall, we should not just sit remorseful in solitary corners disappointed in ourselves, but we must as a matter of lifestyle go to God for help and grace to live a better life. Since growth doesn't happen in just one day, you are expected to grow everyday. In fact, there will never come a time when you will reach the climax of Christian growth. Anybody that stops growing starts dying.
4) Imitate Christ
1 Peter 2:21
"For you have been called for this
purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps."
let Christ be your role model. Let the express image of the pattern Son be your motivation. Seek to live each day like Him. To talk like Him, pray like Him, sing the kind of songs He will sing, go to places He will go.
1 John 2:6
"the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as
He walked."
5) Crucify the Old Man
"We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Romans 6:6
This is a bit longer and you may want to study more about Self or the Adamic nature or the lawless man in the Bible. There are a number of good Christian literatures as well that discuss this subject in simplified details. This is the natural life in everyone who finds it impossible to please God. They find it hard and difficult to be subjected to God. No matter how good this life may sometimes claim to be, it will not stand the test of time. We all must trust in the finished work of Christ as the ultimate end of this nature and therefore bring our flesh under subjection to God no matter how displeasing. When the eyes lust, and the heart becomes proud we must not forget that our bodies are under new management now. The life of the flesh must not therefore dominate us since we have been given victory at Calvary over the dominion of sin and Satan, so we have the right to say no to the flesh and it will obey. Our body is the temple of God where God resides.
Amen
For your questions or counsel
Contact Link
📞 +2348137834509 or +2348108006178
✉oloyede001@gmail.com
🌍www.hallofalltruth.blogspot.com
Written and Complied by Olatuja Oloyede
© Olatuja Oloyede
June, 2017
The first spoke words
Words that gave life
Beauty from the rubble
Perfection from the ashes
All like a mirrage in Eden
She crawled in to put a dent
Mortals reap to lose at sunset
We live to die, so blood's red
Teach me not to sing the swansong
For my time is not yet come
Teach me how to defeat death at sight
When it comes blaring it's teeth at night
Many is life's great phenomenon
Birth, the dawn of a new star
Joy, Peace, and love:life's greatest
But death the faceless monster
Oh death! swell not in your pride
Blow not your horns to heaven's gateman
Flesh to the dust : your bragging right gone
For our souls are far above your reach
Even In death, we live
©Amudipe Opeyemi Marcus
IG- Oluwamarc
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Inspired by the Death of Dr Auuba, a lecturer in the Department of Religious African Studies, AAUA
The first spoke words
Words that gave life
Beauty from the rubble
Perfection from the ashes
All like a mirrage in Eden
She crawled in to put a dent
Mortals reap to lose at sunset
We live to die, so blood's red
Teach me not to sing the swansong
For my time is not yet come
Teach me how to defeat death at sight
When it comes blaring it's teeth at night
Many is life's great phenomenon
Birth, the dawn of a new star
Joy, Peace, and love:life's greatest
But death the faceless monster
Oh death! swell not in your pride
Blow not your horns to heaven's gateman
Flesh to the dust : your bragging right gone
For our souls are far above your reach
Even In death, we live
©Amudipe Opeyemi Marcus
IG- Oluwamarc
___________________________________________________________________________________________
Inspired by the Death of Dr Auuba, a lecturer in the Department of Religious African Studies, AAUA
He is her crush right from secondary school days, he is tall, handsome, slim and very intelligent, the head boy of the school, she admires him a lot and is ready to do anything to have him. They are not classmates, he is in S.S 3, while she is in S.S 2, she hates to see him with any other girl as she gets so jealous whenever she sees him with a girl.
This strange affection she has for him continued for long, but she couldn't tell Him about it as she is shy and don't know what he will think of her, perhaps a desperate and shameless girl, so she keeps her feelings for him to herself, she didn't tell anyone not even her friends, as they also comment on his cuteness, she felt they might also have feelings for him, so she hid her own feelings from them.
After his SSCE, this guy left the school, yet she never stops fantasizing about him, she still thinks about him and imagines becoming his wife one day.
Years pass, so many things happen and she finally forgets about this guy. She is now in the university, studying Law in her first year. She is eighteen years old now. One day, she is outside the canteen waiting for her friend when she sees a group of guys walking towards her. One of them looks so familiar, she keeps on looking at them as they get closer, yes! That is Nicholas, her secondary school crush, she is excited. She giggles and feels butterflies in her belly as old feelings resurface. She is not going to be dull this time she said, she must get him, she never knew they are in the same school, fate actually bring them together again she thought, she is lost in her thoughts and fantasies about him that she doesn't even know her friend is already standing and watching at her silly behaviour in public.
Rose! Her friend finally calls her, she comes back to her senses now, what is wrong with you, Efe asked her? I have been standing here over five minutes and you didn't even notice, you are just staring at those guys, Rose interrupted her, let's just go, you won't understand
One year later,
....thanks for the money, food, foodstuffs, free sex and everything I got from you in this last year, well this letter is to inform you about our break up, I never loved you, and will never do, as a matter of fact, I have a fiance and we will be getting married soon. I just saw you as a desperate girl that was why I gave in to your advances, especially the added advantage of being a rich man's daughter, it's over and over forever, bye Rose..
Rose fainted after reading the message, and since then have suffered mental depression, she no longer think well or straight, her life is a mess, her academics suffered, everything about her was sad and sorrowful, she hardly go out, she stayed indoors all day, sleep, cry and think about Nicholas, she thought he loved her, but he never did, she have broadcasted to everyone about her relationship with Nicholas, all her pictures on social media talks about their love, how was she to come out and face this people after making so much noise. She gets angry at everything and snaps at her roommates at the slightest provocation, when her situation became worse, and her roommates can no longer endure it, after doing everything to make her cheer up again, it all failed, they told the school authorities about her situation, the school authority informed her parents about it, her parents came, took her away from school, she ended up in a psychiatric home suffering mental depression at the age of 20.
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He is her crush right from secondary school days, he is tall, handsome, slim and very intelligent, the head boy of the school, she admires him a lot and is ready to do anything to have him. They are not classmates, he is in S.S 3, while she is in S.S 2, she hates to see him with any other girl as she gets so jealous whenever she sees him with a girl.
This strange affection she has for him continued for long, but she couldn't tell Him about it as she is shy and don't know what he will think of her, perhaps a desperate and shameless girl, so she keeps her feelings for him to herself, she didn't tell anyone not even her friends, as they also comment on his cuteness, she felt they might also have feelings for him, so she hid her own feelings from them.
After his SSCE, this guy left the school, yet she never stops fantasizing about him, she still thinks about him and imagines becoming his wife one day.
Years pass, so many things happen and she finally forgets about this guy. She is now in the university, studying Law in her first year. She is eighteen years old now. One day, she is outside the canteen waiting for her friend when she sees a group of guys walking towards her. One of them looks so familiar, she keeps on looking at them as they get closer, yes! That is Nicholas, her secondary school crush, she is excited. She giggles and feels butterflies in her belly as old feelings resurface. She is not going to be dull this time she said, she must get him, she never knew they are in the same school, fate actually bring them together again she thought, she is lost in her thoughts and fantasies about him that she doesn't even know her friend is already standing and watching at her silly behaviour in public.
Rose! Her friend finally calls her, she comes back to her senses now, what is wrong with you, Efe asked her? I have been standing here over five minutes and you didn't even notice, you are just staring at those guys, Rose interrupted her, let's just go, you won't understand
One year later,
....thanks for the money, food, foodstuffs, free sex and everything I got from you in this last year, well this letter is to inform you about our break up, I never loved you, and will never do, as a matter of fact, I have a fiance and we will be getting married soon. I just saw you as a desperate girl that was why I gave in to your advances, especially the added advantage of being a rich man's daughter, it's over and over forever, bye Rose..
Rose fainted after reading the message, and since then have suffered mental depression, she no longer think well or straight, her life is a mess, her academics suffered, everything about her was sad and sorrowful, she hardly go out, she stayed indoors all day, sleep, cry and think about Nicholas, she thought he loved her, but he never did, she have broadcasted to everyone about her relationship with Nicholas, all her pictures on social media talks about their love, how was she to come out and face this people after making so much noise. She gets angry at everything and snaps at her roommates at the slightest provocation, when her situation became worse, and her roommates can no longer endure it, after doing everything to make her cheer up again, it all failed, they told the school authorities about her situation, the school authority informed her parents about it, her parents came, took her away from school, she ended up in a psychiatric home suffering mental depression at the age of 20.
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Just after supper, we all sat down on the mat in our compound listening to our grandma as she told us a story about the history of our village.
Suddenly, we heard a sound from above... Kpa kpa kee kuuu keeee! It was a thunder strike, a warning for a heavy outpour of rain, a whirlwind followed the thunder strike, the moon disappeared, dark and heavy clouds took over.
Go inside! go inside! my mum said to me and my younger siblings as she helped our grandma enter into her small room
I and my siblings quickly ran into our own room as we squeezed ourselves in one corner of the room. Soon, my mum joined us after placing some plastics at specific corners of the compound for rain to fall in.
My younger siblings were already asleep on the mat, while my mum went over to her mat and lay there.
The thunder kept striking, the wind kept blowing, the cloud was dark and heavy, while I sat still like a cat at the corner of our room.
Silently, I prayed in my heart, that it will not rain, I was not ready for another sleepless night. Just last week, a heavy whirlwind blew off the roof of our house, and whenever it rains, the ceiling always leaked directly on my head at the corner of my mat where I sleep.
My father is late, my poor mother cannot fix the roof, nor repair the ceiling, she was just a poor farmer, and use the little earnings of her farm to feed us and our grandma. I and my siblings have to leave our private school and go to the village public school, after school we join our mother at the farm to help her.
That was the reason why I sat still alone at the corner of the room.
© Oluwaferanmi Victoria
Just after supper, we all sat down on the mat in our compound listening to our grandma as she told us a story about the history of our village.
Suddenly, we heard a sound from above... Kpa kpa kee kuuu keeee! It was a thunder strike, a warning for a heavy outpour of rain, a whirlwind followed the thunder strike, the moon disappeared, dark and heavy clouds took over.
Go inside! go inside! my mum said to me and my younger siblings as she helped our grandma enter into her small room
I and my siblings quickly ran into our own room as we squeezed ourselves in one corner of the room. Soon, my mum joined us after placing some plastics at specific corners of the compound for rain to fall in.
My younger siblings were already asleep on the mat, while my mum went over to her mat and lay there.
The thunder kept striking, the wind kept blowing, the cloud was dark and heavy, while I sat still like a cat at the corner of our room.
Silently, I prayed in my heart, that it will not rain, I was not ready for another sleepless night. Just last week, a heavy whirlwind blew off the roof of our house, and whenever it rains, the ceiling always leaked directly on my head at the corner of my mat where I sleep.
My father is late, my poor mother cannot fix the roof, nor repair the ceiling, she was just a poor farmer, and use the little earnings of her farm to feed us and our grandma. I and my siblings have to leave our private school and go to the village public school, after school we join our mother at the farm to help her.
That was the reason why I sat still alone at the corner of the room.
© Oluwaferanmi Victoria
THE SOCIO-POLITICAL RELEVANCE OF NIGERIAN MUSIC:
A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SONGS OF
ALEXANDER AJIFOLAJI (9ICE),
BUKOLA ELEMIDE (ASA)
AND BISADE OLOGUNDE (LAGBAJA)
BY
OLATUJA OLOYEDE
MARCH, 2017
A RESEARCH WORK PRESENTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS,
ADEKUNLE AJASIN UNIVERSITY, AKUNGBA AKOKO, ONDO STATE.
BY
OLATUJA OLOYEDE
CERTIFICATION
This is to certify that this project work was carried out by Olatuja Oloyedeof the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Arts, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State.
SUPERVISOR
Professor C. Olujide Ajidahun
HOD
Dr. Sola Owonibi
Copy Right
This is an intellectual property which belongs to Olatuja Oloyede and it cannot be copied, transferred, stored or redistributed in any form whatsoever without a prior permission from the author. © Olatuja Oloyede (2017)DEDICATION
I dedicate this work to God for His overwhelming grace given to me to successfully complete this project. I also dedicate this to my beloved parents and to all Nigerian students in general. I hope you will find this relevant in the advancement of literary scholarship.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
What more can I say than thank you Lord. God’s faithfulness is the secret behind the success of this work. Only Him deserves the praises and glory.Words will fail me in appreciating the contributions of my supervisor whose unique academic and moral soundness has provided me the needed mentorship and guidance throughout my studentship in this great institution of learning. The impacts you have made in my life sir will remain forever part of my life.
My parents are certainly inestimable treasures in my heart. Their great sense of responsibility and commitment towards my progress in life can only be rewarded by God. It is my prayer that their labours of love will not go in vain.
I want to appreciate Dr (Mrs) Awe Bolajoko for her constant encouragement throughout the course of this work. She gave the all the papers for the printing and offered to give money and printer if need be. I appreciate this kind gestures ma.
I am grateful to Pastor David Oludipe, Mr Akinsola Akinwunmi, Uncle Jerry Okogwu, Mr Bamidele Anderson, and Erg Edward Olatuja for their consistent concern over my academic progress.
I appreciate my great lecturers in the Department of English Studies, Adekunle Ajasin University for their selfless sacrifices and contributions to my life. The H O D of the Department, in person of Dr Sola Owonibi has been a wonderful and dynamic person. May God bless you all in Jesus name.
To my wonderful siblings: Abiola, Joy and Thatcher, you are the very best and I’m grateful to God to be in such a beautiful family.
I also say thank you to the Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical Students for making their printers and generator available so as to ensure that this work is a success. To my brethren in this unique family of God, I say thank you and God bless you.
To my personal friends in Living Vine Prophetic Church who have come to become a necessary part of my success, may God bless you.
I appreciate all my colleagues in the Department. It has been a worthwhile experience together since 2012. Greater heights in Jesus name.
Obviously, names are too numerous to mention. To everyone who has been a part of my life, I say thank you and God bless you. Amen.
ABSTRACT
This work focuses on the sociopolitical relevance of Nigerian music by examining how artists have been able to use the institution of music as an instrument of evaluating the society. Musicians therefore are regarded as social critics who appraise the society, locate the basis of encountered human challenges and proffer solutions where necessary. There is an inseparable link between music and the society. It does not exist in a vacuum but within the cyclic continuum of the communal life of the people. The three musicians used as case studies are Bukola Elemide (Asa), Alexander Ajifolaji (9ice), Bisade Ologunde (Lagbaja). The songs examined are Fire on the Mountain, Iya Ni, Petepete, 200 Million Mumu (part 1 and 3). The sociological theories provide this project the systemic principles through which the analyses of the selected songs are done. The artists studied in this work appraise a society that is populated by selfish politicians and corrupt citizens by speaking to such themes like economic hardship, social upheaval corruption, insecurity, poor standard of living, lack of social amenities, misappropriation of public funds and political instability. The major focus of this work is therefore to place music as a relevant art institution through which the totality of a people’s worldview can be understood. It is recommended that the music criticism be given such similar attention enjoyed by literary criticism and more scholarly resources be channeled towards the analyses and evaluation of musical productions to elicit the wisdom embedded in them. This will not only foster the expansion of scholarship but also provide us with a totally new dimension of perceiving our social and political challenges and the suggested ways forward.TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page I-IICertification III
Dedication IV
Acknowledgements V
Abstract VI
Table of Contents VII-XI
CHAPTER ONE
Music, Literature and Society 1-4Background to the Study 4-5
Significance of the Study 5-6
Theoretical Framework 6-7
Research Methodology 7
Scope of the Study 8
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Bukola Elemide 8-10
Musical Career 10-11
Bisade Ologunde 11-12
Musical Career 12
Alexander Ajifolaji 13
Conclusion 14
CHAPTER TWO
SECTION ONE
What Is Music? 15-16Music as A Means of Entertainment 16
Music as A Means of Education 17
Music as an Instrument of Socio-Political Criticism 18-19
TYPES OF MUSIC
Blues 19Children Music 20
Classical Music 20-21
Country Music 21
Hip Hop 21-22
SECTION TWO
Sociological Theories 23-24SECTION THREE
Nigerian Music 25
Traditional Music 26
Theatrical Music 26-27
Children Music 27
POPULAR MUSIC
Juju 27
Apala 27
Rock N’ Roll 28
Highlife 28
Fuji 29
Afro-Juju 29
Afro-Beat 29
Reggae 30
Hip Hop 30
Classical Music 31
Conclusion 31
CHAPTER THREE: THE THEMATIC APPRAISAL OF 9ICE’S AND ASA’S SONGS
General Introduction 32A Critical Appraisal Of 9ice’s Musical Style 32-34
PETEPETE
Post-Colonial Disillusionment 35-36Social Recklessness and Its Effects 37-38
Political Insincerity 38-41
Law of Retribution 41-42
Conclusion 42
THERE IS FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
Social Imprudence 43Political Instability and Insecurity 43-45
Civilian Pitfalls 45-46
Cultural and Moral Decadence 47-48
Conclusion 49
IYA NI
Poor Standard of Living 50-51
Poverty 51
Sociopolitical Servitude 51-52
Conclusion 52
CHAPTER FOUR: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAGBAJA’S SONGS
An Appraisal of Lagbaja Musical Style 53-54200 MILLION MUMU (PART ONE)
The Roles of the Citizens in a System of Corruption 55-57
Relevance of His Masked Tradition 57-58
Criticism of the Social Culture of Scapegoatism 58-60
Restoration of Moral Values as the Way Forward 60-61
200 MILLION MUMU (PART THREE)
Political Avariciousness 62-63
Social Recklessness 63-66
Suggested Remedies 66-68
CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion 69-70Recommendations 71
Works Cited 71-74
Appendices 75-83
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE, MUSIC AND SOCIETY
Literature, being a fundamental discipline in the humanities, is a field of study with no univocal perception or definition which to various people can mean various things. However, a critic once mentioned that “in an attempt to define the term ‘literature’, one can distinguish between two general directions: a broad and a narrow definition.” In its broadest description, literature can be seen as works of art written or spoken which serves men as a means of creative or imaginative expression of their thoughts, feelings, anxieties, affections and the sum total of their activities. Proponents of this school of thought divide literature into two important strands: Oral Literature and Written Literature.
Moreover, stories, songs, rituals, festivals, ceremonies etc which are the ancient forms of oral expressions are not established on some unorganized or primitive customs but premised upon a systemic pattern concentrated towards a definite end and a concise objective. Therefore, ever before the advent of graphological representation of verbal act in alphabetical or pictographic medium, man has always given a concerted effort, through verbal means, to the evaluation of his society, explanation of natural complexities and interpretation of communal perception of moral acceptance which is adequately preserved in his oral tradition.
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THE SOCIO-POLITICAL RELEVANCE OF NIGERIAN MUSIC:
A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SONGS OF
ALEXANDER AJIFOLAJI (9ICE),
BUKOLA ELEMIDE (ASA)
AND BISADE OLOGUNDE (LAGBAJA)
BY
OLATUJA OLOYEDE
MARCH, 2017
The Gander and the Geese
I use this adage more for it poetic import: "do not kill the goose that lay the golden egg" and that :"that which is good for the gander is good for the goose" but honestly, I'd never seen a goose or a gander before. I saw both today. Looks like a giant duck but believe me when I say giant. Ok... It looks innocent too but as the zoologist warned, don't underestimate the gander when he feels threatened, you may regret it. The male is gander and the female is goose. They feed on grains since they are herbivores
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The Gander and the Geese
I use this adage more for it poetic import: "do not kill the goose that lay the golden egg" and that :"that which is good for the gander is good for the goose" but honestly, I'd never seen a goose or a gander before. I saw both today. Looks like a giant duck but believe me when I say giant. Ok... It looks innocent too but as the zoologist warned, don't underestimate the gander when he feels threatened, you may regret it. The male is gander and the female is goose. They feed on grains since they are herbivores
Thanks for letting me take you around the zoo... Hope you had a nice time. Don't forget to subscribe to stay connected... You may also hang around the site for a moment longer and you won't be bored... Visit the poem, or story section or the spiritual category or the jokes.... You can also leave a message for us..... We love you real good....
Oh should I send you my account details?
The Peacock
Actually the most colourful bird
I love to see the male and female peacock in their royal regalia of dazzling colours. Don't be surprise, I've not seen one before now except in books. But forget the fact that they say the peacock is proud... It is also a very beautiful bird.
The Peacock
Actually the most colourful bird
I love to see the male and female peacock in their royal regalia of dazzling colours. Don't be surprise, I've not seen one before now except in books. But forget the fact that they say the peacock is proud... It is also a very beautiful bird.
The Vulture (Igunugun)
The vulture is a scavenger. It feels on dead animal and it can eat anything dead. Any meat goes for this bird. No one dear come near her cage and this shot is taken from a little close range because of my bravity you know. There is something about this bird, it has a kind if deadly stench around her.
Igunugun as the Yoruba will call it is considered a sacred bird of spiritual relevance. Maybe it an ancient superstition that whosoever kills a vulture dies within a year (eni na pa igunugun ki'n kadun, eni ba pa'kalamago ki'n kasu). That to me has no scientific footing.... But the question is why is this bird bard? Has she bathed in a boiling water just at the dawn of creation? Question for another day.
The Vulture (Igunugun)
The vulture is a scavenger. It feels on dead animal and it can eat anything dead. Any meat goes for this bird. No one dear come near her cage and this shot is taken from a little close range because of my bravity you know. There is something about this bird, it has a kind if deadly stench around her.
Igunugun as the Yoruba will call it is considered a sacred bird of spiritual relevance. Maybe it an ancient superstition that whosoever kills a vulture dies within a year (eni na pa igunugun ki'n kadun, eni ba pa'kalamago ki'n kasu). That to me has no scientific footing.... But the question is why is this bird bard? Has she bathed in a boiling water just at the dawn of creation? Question for another day.
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