Posted on November 1st, 2012 by Folarin Kolawole
Glitters of yellowish-brown lights whispered off handcrafts of ingenious minds. Crafts of staffs, swords and many masks, they were; While some others were of human forms that tell stories of ancient times, others happily flaunted their exotic and ostentatious designs to anyone who cared to stare. These figures line a street at a [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2012 by Folarin Kolawole
In the land of Igarra, Edo State, rumbles a gracious, yet unknown waterfall. Along the course of River Pankasha it forms, just as its dust-coloured waters plunge down a steep 6m-high and 10m-wide rock-face of foliated quartzite. The landscape that surrounds Pankasha River is a stylish fabric of grass land and punctuations of small trees [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2011 by Folarin Kolawole
During a recent visit to the Somorika Hills of Igarra area, Edo State, in south-western Nigeria, we happened upon a monitor lizard caught in a local trap near a river on the outskirts of Igarra town. It was quite a surprise to find such an elusive fauna in a basement (hard rock) terrain like [...]
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