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    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep
    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep
    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep
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    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep

    By Dele Kogbe

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    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep is an African story narrated in a distinct dramatic style. The story is full of actions and dialogues married by philosophical thoughts relative to the norms from an African society. The story is set in Wasoya.
    Dele Kogbe has made a signal contribution to the exploration of the nature and future of Africana philosophy, which refi nes the intellectual life of our ancient Motherlands civilization and culture -Terrence Wendell Brathwaite, Founding Programme Manager, MBA Degree in Global Development & Comparative Law, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK.
    The God Had Gone to Sleep is a good story rooted in Yoruba custom and tradition, enlivens the mind of the readers as it unveils and resolves tension associated with kingship and dictatorship - Moshood Folorunsho, author of When the Melon Speaks (A play) and Programme Offi cer, Educare Trust, Nigeria.
    This is a really lovely book, I have enjoyed reading. There is an established African style, which adds to the telling of a Nigerian story, I would not say that it should be anglicised as the style adds fl avour and character ...good language and the ability to tell a story, build tension and so on. Well done, Dele, you clearly have talent as a writer -Angela Marshall, Senior Lecturer in Law, Coventry University, UK
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateJun 14, 2012
    ISBN9781467896245
    The Gods Had Gone to Sleep
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    Dele Kogbe

    Dele Kogbe was born on May 31, 1983, in Nigeria. He is a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). His published works are widely used in teaching literature in primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. They include Songs of a Wounded Dove (Poetry, 2007), Child of Destiny (2009) and The Young Farmer (2009). He received the 2010 Merit Award of the Association of Nigerian Authors/OYAYD, Oyo State. Bamidele is the founder of Global Student Writers’ Society, Coventry University. He is presently a postgraduate student at International Studies and Social Sciences Department of Coventry University, United Kingdom. He is a dramatic poet.

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      The Gods Had Gone to Sleep - Dele Kogbe

      © 2012 by Dele Kogbe. All rights reserved.

      good story rooted in custom and tradition, enlivens the mind of the readers as it unveils and resolves tension associated with kingship and dictatorship- Mosh Folorunsho, author of 'When the Melon Speaks'

      This story is a completely fictitious. All the characters and places mentioned in the story live only in author's imagination. Any resemblance in real world is a coincidence

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 06/04/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4678-9625-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4678-9624-5 (e)

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Acknowledgement

      Wasoya

      The White Handkerchief

      The Magun

      Nemesis

      DEDICATION

      To my late maternal grandmother, Princess Suwebat Ayinke

      Whom her only child, my own mother never knew

      I was told, grandma that you knelt nine times to be a mother

      The eight brought no joy but dashed hope

      The ninth that survived is keeping you alive today

      You;

      An elegant princess

      from Gbadebo Royal Family in our renowned Ake

      Grandma, the seed you sowed before you returned home

      Has germinated from your fertile soil long time ago

      But you never waited to watch the growth of its wonderful plant

      That now bears fruits to feed humanity.

      Peace unto you Grandma.

      Foreword

      Like an alchemist, transmogrifying implicit ontologies, existential personas, and epistemologies into an explicit, yet seminal exploration of Africana systems of thought, Dele Kogbe has made a signal contribution to the exploration of the nature and future of Africana philosophy, which refines the intellectual life of our ancient Motherland’s civilization and culture. With a modicum of savoir faire, wit and reflexivity he pours into the Africana syncopated ‘gumbo’, spiritual, mythic, genealogical and folkloric discourses, and from their clashes and melding issues a stream of intellectual creativity which evinces not only a genuine postcolonial ethno philosophy that both re-claims and transcends the theoretical heritage of Western philosophy appropriated from the ‘cradle of civilisation’, but also demonstrates a rigorous process of independent meta-scientific enquiry.

      Dele’s forensic examination of the context and particularity of Africana communal governance and cultural life in his schema of metaphysical reasoning, highlights both his debt to our ancestral African tenets and modern Africana convictions, which he duly rescues from the heavy cloud of colonial invisibility, that today still floats through the African continental psyche—light like a feather, yet heavy like lead. As readers, we therefore need to digest The Gods Had Gone To Sleep while being ever mindful that the ‘African Sage’ (the Messenger) may point to the ‘Sun’ (the Message), but it is the ‘idiot’ who worships the pointer’s ‘finger’. Thus, if we persist in searching for God, we search only for conjecture—and miss the ‘Shining Reality’.

      I congratulate Dele on his authorship of The Gods Had Gone To Sleep, which I will recommend to my University’s Library for immediate purchase upon publication. It would be deemed essential reading for the international students on the ‘Africana Governance & Human Development’ module of my flagship course, the ‘MBA Degree in Global Development & Comparative Law’

      Ashé

      Terrence Wendell Brathwaite,

      Founding Programme Manager,

      MBA Degree in Global Development & Comparative Law,

      Coventry Business School,

      Coventry University, United Kingdom

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

      I give thanks to Almighty God for the success of this book. I thank all the reviewers who had found time despite their busy schedules to read through the draft of this story and made valuable comments that motivated me further in pursuing this book project. I duly appreciate Don Terry Braithwaite, Senior Lecturer and founding Programme Manager for MBA Degree in Global Development & Comparative Law, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, United Kingdom, for accepting to write foreword to the book. I thank Angela Marshall, Senior Lecturer in Law, Coventry University, for reading and making useful comments on the story, Kunle Okesipe for reading and making editorial suggestions and Moshood Folorunso, Programme Officer of Educare Trust and Youth Centre, Nigeria for critiquing and encouraging me to pursuing this book project.

      To those indispensable teachers that I have come across on my academic journey, I thank you all for your invaluable contributions in my life. My thanks go to my former lecturers at Public Administration and Local Government Studies Department of The Polytechnic Ibadan, Alhaji Adekunle Busari (HOD), Chief Segun Adedokun, former HOD and all other lecturers who have contributed to my intellectual awareness as a student. I am grateful to Chief Femi Aramide, former Dean, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies and Dr. (Mrs) Ajayi for recommending my book, Songs of a Wounded Dove (Poetry) to students and lecturers as a useful text for Literature in English classes in 2008. This, even after years, still lingers in my heart

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