naptu2:
Pyrates Confraternity, National Association of Seadogs, etc

Professor Wole Soyinka attended the University of Ibadan (then known as the University College, Ibadan) from 1952 till 1954. He and his friends noticed some problems at the school.

They noticed that children of the wealthy got certain privileges and seemed to look down on the children of the poor, while the children of the poor tried to immitate the children of the rich.

They also noticed that there was division in the student body and that division was based on tribal affiliations.

Wole Soyinka, Ralph Opara, Pius Oleghe, Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede, Nathaniel Oyelola, Olumuyiwa Awe and Sylvanus Egbuche (dubbed the Magnificent Seven) therefore decided to create a fraternity that would bring students together and fight against the divisions that they had noticed.

American fraternities are usually influenced by Greek and general European culture, but the fraternity that the Magnificent Seven created was influenced by pirate novels and movies that were popular in Nigeria at the time. They thus decided to name their fraternity the Pyrates Confraternity.

Many of the symbols and names of the fraternity were from the novel, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Wole Soyinka chose the name Capn Blood from the novel Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini. (Those novels were also adapted into movies).

The Pyrates Confraternity was founded in 1952 and its objectives were

To uphold human dignity and maintaining a just and progressive society shorn of discriminatory and unmeritorious considerations

The confraternity was open to all bright students, regardless of social status, ethnic group or religion.

Professor Soyinka left the University of Ibadan in 1954 and moved to the UK to continue his studies.


The origin of the problem

In 1972, twenty years after the Pyrates Confraternity had been formed and many years after the Magnificent Seven had moved on, three members of the Pyrates Confraternity, Kunle Adigun, Bolaji Carew and Tunde Jawando, accused the leadership of the Pyrates Confraternity (on university campuses) of violating the original ideas of the fraternity. They said that there were "super members" of the Pyrates Fraternity who behaved like they were above others.

They said that the original reason that the Magnificent Seven created the fraternity was to fight classism and discrimination, but that the then leaders of the Pyrates Fraternity were practicing classism and discrimination. They therefore broke away and formed the Buccaneers Confraternity.

Other groups broke away from the Pyrates and the Buccaneers and there was rivalry between the various groups.

By the 1980s these organisations were no longer fraternities, instead they had become youth gangs, just like the Bloods and the Crips in the US. They were fighting against each other and they became known for violence, killings and intimidation, instead of the academic excellence and social and charity work that fraternities are known for.

Due to this situation, the Pyrates Confraternity dissolved all the affiliates on university campuses and left the universities. However, several youth gangs on campuses adopted the Pyrates name.


National Association of Seadogs

The Pyrates Fraternity still exists as the National Association of Seadogs. They are official accredited INEC observers, they engage in charity activities and they hold conferences and workshops.

Professor Wole Soyinka sometimes uses the National Association of Seadogs as an intelligence service. I told you abou this after Professor Soyinka's discussion with Okey Ndibe in South Africa.

The National Association of Seadogs has had many members over the decades. Professor Soyinka has also taught many people, both in Nigeria and abroad. Sometimes, during the military era, someone that Professor Soyinka did not even know might suddenly warn him that he was about to be arrested. What happened was that the person was probably one of Soyinka's former students or a member of the National Association of Seadogs, but he had become a police officer or soldier.

Professor Soyinka said certain things when he was discussing with Okey Ndibe. He knew who actually won the election because the National Association of Seadogs was an official INEC accredited observer and he knew what was happening within the Obidient Movement because some Obidients were his former students, members of the National Association of Seadogs or were people that he mentored.

Photo 1) The original 7 founders of the Pyrates Confraternity.

Photo 2) Members of the Pyrates Confraternity welcomed Nnamdi Azikiwe to the University of Lagos in 1972. Dr Azikiwe had just been appointed the chancellor of the university.

PressMyButton:
No other person deserves the honour than Prof. WS. The first Noble Laureate in Africa.

naptu2:
Tribute to Wole Soyinka in Morocco (2 days ago).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48ZObqcMmp4?si=7S7_ZIlJ3c0-hUsA

kYjelly2:
See how dey are forcing agbado inside mouth of a noble Louretta

how many agbado can one mouth hold inside at once?

some are asking, why baba so quiet? why baba never speak?

can you talk too with many corn inside your mouth?

YorubaNiBaba:
Peppering time be this.... Our blodas from 5 plots of land no go like this

ChiefJusticeFuc:
E no go pass them.

naptu2:



Do you realize that this is madness trury and fully realized?

Just a question please!

Beremx:
He's not the first Nobel Laureate in Africa. There were many before him. He's rather the first black African to win Nobel prize for Literature. Make una dey google before posting false news.

Congratulations to Professor Wole Soyinka. He deserves the recognition

PressMyButton:

There's only one Gbajue and that's Bitter Obi. WS protested for Biafra, was jailed, he protested for your grandparents, your parents. Still, you want him to protest for you while your own father cuddle your mother in bed. Have some shame, kid.

phabulux:
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naptu2:
Picture below (3 of my favourites): John Pepper-Clark, Professor Chinua Achebe and Professor Wole Soyinka @ Dodan Barracks to plead for the life of (soldier and poet) Major General Mamman Vatsa. Picture and some excerpts in the narrative below are from "You May Set Forth At Dawn" by Wole Soyinka (published by Bookcraft).

Bobloco:
The Gbaju e crooner has now been handsomely rewarded for his silence and for not speaking up against the worst regime in the history of this country.