By Sunny Awhefeada The “buka” and its ally “beer parlour” constitute a significant decimal in the sociology of the poor and the middle class in Nigeria. They are the equivalents of the restaurant and lounge. Both sites have not only evolved to become domains of intellectual and pseudo-intellectual engagements, but they are also newsrooms where information, true and false, is easily available. They are stopgaps in meeting the feeding and recreational exigencies of those that patronize them. The buka was a survival index for me before I tied the nuptial…
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