Ovie Omo-Agege: Like the Chichidodo
By Fred Edoreh In Ayi Kwei Armah's "The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born", we come across a bird called Chichidodo. The interesting thing about it is that it hates excrement so much but it's best food is the maggot which grows best in excreta. Even when Chichidodo pollutes the air, it runs as if something else is pursuing it, forgetting that it cannot run away from itself. The contradiction of the Chichidodo best describes the latest outburst of former Deputy Senate President and failed candidate of
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