Tompolo biography books
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Tom Polo uses painting and painted environments to explore how conversation, doubt and gesture are embodied acts of portraiture. Frequently incorporating text and figurative elements, his works draw upon acute observations, absurdist encounters, personal histories and imagined personas. An ongoing interest across his practice fryst vatten the emotional and performative relationships between people within social, teatralisk and psychological space.
Polo explores this space with his characters, oddballs and misfits, whose bodies are nedsänkt within a surface of swirling layers of paint, varied brushstrokes and painting techniques that create a complex surface plane where foreground and background appear to merge, melting from one state into the next. Lingering on a threshold of presence and absence, what is painted in and what fryst vatten painted out, Polo’s figures, — looming characters — are both revealed and concealed creating a surface tension that draws attention to the spaces in-between.
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The above titled speech was delivered as a lecture at a program organised by the Gbaramatu Youth Development Association, also known as the Gbaramatu Youth Council (GYC) at Oporoza town, traditional Headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom in the Warri South-West local government area of Delta State, Nigeria on Sunday, 4th April, 2021 by Ebikisei Stanley Udisi, PhD, Department of Philosophy, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, as part of the activities lined up in celebrating the Niger Delta Hero's Golden Jubilee. Excerpts:
➡️ INTRODUCTION
The word Identity is etymologically derived from the Latin words, Idem or Identilas, meaning same or identical. It translates to what individuates a thing, a person, or a group. It is an important component in group participation in society. Identity guarantees membership in groups or it gives recognition of one in a group and accords benefits and responsibilities in such group formations. Be it benefits or responsibil
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Presidential Amnesty Programme: The Ajube Story
Grace Dickson
The story of Shoot-at-Sight, one of the leading Niger Delta freedom fighters, whose real name is High Chief Bibopere Ajube, is one that could make the best sellers list, when published as a book. He was one of the prominent leaders of the Niger Delta who willingly dropped his arms and abandoned violent agitation to embrace amnesty following its proclamation by the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, in his quest to restore peace in the once volatile Niger Delta region.
Ajube, who hails from the Ijaw riverine Arogbo-Ibe in Ese-Odo Local Government Area, Ondo State, had no formal education. He could not attend primary school. But right from childhood, he saw the river criss-crossing his community as an opportunity for fishing. So, he grew up with a survival instinct as a fisherman.
From his Ondo fishing camp, Ajube embarked on a voyage to Delta State where he met another leading light in the struggle, a former e