KENNETH DIKE LIBRARY: AS DARK AS NIGHT.

By Funwontan

The effects of the ongoing strike action imposed by the Non academic Staff Union (NASU), that commenced officially on the 18th of October, 2023 seems to have exerted its tentacles to a different part of the school life. The continued threat of electricity failure on campus has been eroded by another pressing concern: The Kenneth Dike Library.

As one of the brain powers of the school intelligence where students find succor in knowledge, KDL has come with its own appointment with depreciation following the disappointing NASU strike. The doors to its hallowed entrance have been rudely barred from entry. The two reading annex extensions that were opened (one hopes as a result of the good will of the management) did nothing to assuage this fault.


With streams of students coming in at all hours of the day, the resources have been greatly over-exerted. The nightly hours are even worse on account of no power supply. Students have been reduced to a state of laziness loitering around the premises at nights doing nothing that involves a close familiarity with books. Gossips and petty talks are the latest preoccupation.

The hub of knowledge thus has turned into a place of yawning darkness and makeshift bedroom for sleepy-eyed figures huddled around its premises. There are continued concerns of what would happen in the coming days to this state of worrying affairs especially with the ghosts of exams lurking around the shadows and  inciting a friendless mixture of anxieties and trepidations.

 Perhaps, we could all hope for a miracle soon. But as NASU refuses to give any ground on compromises, maybe our hopes (in essence affiliated to the total restoration of KDL to its former illuminated glories) might have been far fetched indeed.

An active KDL user said, "The presence of darkness teaches us to appreciate the absence of light."

 A philosophical maxim, yet not so out of place in this context.

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