Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Akin Adesokan on: "Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower’s Tower 1"

thanks for this beautiful, tantalizingly written lead-in
ken

On 8/18/13 4:26 PM, Ikhide wrote:

"December in southwestern Nigeria is a thirsty, incandescent month, halfway through the dry season. The evening air is burnished to tinder-edged sharpness by the harmattan, cool, sandy wind blowing southward with imperceptible haste, eager to catch fire before it reaches the coast where humidity lies in wait like a spider to quell the happy-fly noise of the haughty breeze. These are the times of arson and brushfires, and you can sense it in the gaiety of public conduct, the upbeat display of enthusiasm that propels itself toward the disastrous with a little lack of care. It is not fvor nothing that the dying months of the year are called the 'ember-months'. Mix this atmosphere with soccer, 'good' nationalism (as opposed to the bad varieties in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda), home advantage, and faith too deep to need work as supplement, and you have the unforgettable encounter between the IICC Shooting Stars FC of Ibadan and Zamalek FC of Egypt, in the second leg of the finals of the 1984 African Champions Club Cup, played at the National Stadium in Lagos on Saturday, December 8."

Akin Adesokan, writes a stunner in "Ibadan, Soutin and the Puzzle of Bower's Tower 1."

Read the rest here...

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