An Olympian Shame!

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 As literature students at the University of Benin, we played with words as we honed our po­etic and oratorical skills. One of the many superlative words we de­ployed in those hungry, but starry eyed days was “Olympian” which in our context meant “exceptional” or “super­human”. We deployed it to foreground traits that we found extraordinary, […]