USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Police in Our Bandaged Heads

"For those of us on the other side of image making, the police are unwelcome postcolonial replacements of the masquerade. In place of the cane that mmanwu the masquerade used to carry, the policeman carries a cudgel, euphemized as a "baton." The policeman, like a terrible type of mmanwu, also carries egbe cham, a shotgun, and could shoot at the least provocation.

Don't mess with this kind of performing ekwensu, or you could fall asleep and wake up to find yourself in the land of the dead."

Read the full text of "The Police in Our Bandaged Heads" at:

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/5653456-146/story.csp

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Obododimma Oha
http://udude.wordpress.com/

(Associate Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics)

Dept. of English
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

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Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan

Phone: +234 803 333 1330;
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