Ladi Kwali , OON , MBE (c.1925-1984) was a Nigerian potter . Lady Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria , where pottery was an indigenous female tradition. She learned to make pottery as a child by her aunt using the traditional method of coiling . She made large pots for use as water jars, cooking pots, bowls, and flasks from coils of clay, beaten from the...

Ogun or Ogoun ( Yoruba : Ògún, Portuguese : Ogum , Gu ; also spelled Oggun or Ogou ; known as Ogún in Latin America ) is an Orisha , Loa , and Vodun . He is a warrior and a powerful spirit of metal work, as well as rum and rum-making ... Yoruba religion Statue of Ogun, Sacred Grove Of Oshun, Osogbo, Nigeria In Yoruba religion , Ogun is a primordial Orisha who first appeared as a hunter named Tobe...

OGBOMOSHO was generated from ‘Ogbori Elemọshọ’ when Sọun Ogunlọla, a great hunter, who later became the first Sọun of Ogbomọshọ, helped the old Ọyọ Empire to kill Elemọshọ and brought his head to Alaafin. People began to refer to the settlement of Sọun Ogunlọla as ’Ibi ti wọn ti gbe Ori Elemọshọ’. Like any history of a people that began before the invention of writing and printing, history was...

Summary: Chapter one A man said to be a visitor was drowning in the sea and people gathered at the shore watching and shouting and expressing their wish that the man gets out alive. They expect that the sea patrol is prompt enough to save this dying man. Sam stood the tallest among the watchers, about six inches taller than the others. He said things that those around him did not understand or rather feel that he was a pessimist. He said, not to anyone exactly, that the...

Plot Overview Bigger Thomas, a poor, uneducated, twenty-year-old black man in 1930s Chicago, wakes up one morning in his family’s cramped apartment on the South Side of the city. He sees a huge rat scamper across the room, which he corners and kills with a skillet. Having grown up under the climate of harsh racial prejudice in 1930s America, Bigger is burdened with a powerful conviction that he has no control over his life and that he cannot aspire to anything other than menial,...