When Kuli Kuli loses its savour
Kuli kuli is a delicious peanut-based snack. It is probably the most celebrated accompaniment for “smoking” garri, or cassava flakes if you will. It is also known for being so temptingly delicious that it could teach youngsters thievery, as one of those songs we sang in Yoruba as kids went. Kulik kuli was also the Friday back page column of Mr Femi Adesina in The Sun. He has since then become a lead spokesperson for the second coming of a dictatorship under General Muhammadu Buhari. With lucid style, the column contributed to national discourse. There was an echo of truth in its lines. The past half a decade has however helped show Adesina for what he is, as he now writes and speaks for “the inside”. Does this have to do with supernatural powers, abi na demons in Aso Rock that like (to waste) our local snacks? Just a few years back Reuben Abati informed the world of these spirits and their taste for boli , the plantain snack which is supposed to help turgidity of that thin...