UI Student Launches Book on Poetry

The Poet (second from right), Emmanuel Motojesi, with others after the press conference in Ibadan recently.

Motojesi Emmanuel, a 300-level student of Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, has launched his anthology titled, ‘’Peregrinations  of An Inspired Soul’’ recently in Ibadan, being among very few students that write and publish books in recent times.

Emmanuel expressed during a press briefing around Bodija, in Ibadan, recently, that metaphor, paradox and irony formed the main poetic devices employed in the work, ‘’I also think that life is a paradox, people say that it is destiny, we have our own destiny to build, and my destiny could be to get to the end of a junction, and how I get there is that I move from here to that place.’’

To him, life is a source of inspiration, getting inspired by all that happens around him,as he stated that sometimes therecould be what to talk about, but there might not be the right expression to do such, hence his ability to put up his thoughts in a book was prevention of the escape of the poetic expressions in the anthology.

‘’My job is to present the world in such a way that is meaningful so what you look out for is dependent on you. The peregrinations of an informed soul is the peregrinations of a soul that isinspired, but then the soul was not inspired in vacuum. It was inspired by same thing that inspires other people,’ he explained further on what inspired him.

He said learning was inspiring that he would keep learning, and writing, adding that the University of Ibadan has been a wonderful place for him.

‘’ Very few people go out of their ways to read other books. We have done a lot of work to make people get the book,’’ he said on the reading culture of the people especially Africans, as hefurther stated that, ‘’there would be electronic copies of the book, and right now we are in a process that the book is on Amazon.com, an electronic company where people can get soft copies of the book.Basically, the most important thing we can assure everybody is that this book will be available in major bookshops at least in Ibadan, and other places: Lagos, Port Harcourt, Kaduna. People can check the meanings of words in the collection, read those meanings toglean into what the poet is writing about, just to make it more accessible and readable to readers. People should be encouraged to read no matter what shape, copy or colour it comes out. We should make excuses for people sometimes on why they are not reading, but not every time.

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ASUU STRIKE: AGS ASKS ASUU TO CHANNEL DEMANDS THROUGH OTHER MEANS

 

During the Town Hall meeting organized by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the mainbowl of the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, today, the Assistant General Secretary (AGS) of the Students’ Union, Mr. George Peter, University of Ibadan, had asked the Union to find other means of resolving the rift between it and the federal government which had led to over 100-day strike action.

In his speech, he opined the Union should not expect same result with same means, while admonishing the Union to help out on the lingering action.

Meanwhile, Amuda Mosigbodi, a postgraduate student, of the University advised that the students should protest en masse and find lasting solution to educational challenges bedeviling the nation, as he said that the strike must be total, indefinite and final to help save the University education.

Abbey Trosky, one of the contributors suggested at the meeting that the students must not only support the strike, but should come up with their demands on improvement of the educational sector.

ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan branch, Dr. Segun Ajiboye lamented the state of the Nigerian Universities, and condemned several anti-ASUU speeches in the media stating the agitations of the Union were geared towards improvement of the University education.

A power-point presentation was made by Prof. Remi Raji, the Dean, Faculty of Arts, showing the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) assessment report, on the dilapidation in the Nigerian Universities.

Present at the occasion were representatives of market women, Nigerian Labour Congress (NUC), Trade Union Congress, herbalists, religious leaders, among others as they asserted that they supported the ongoing strike.

Earlier, the union had rejected another offer given it by the Federal Government.

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