Society creates a variety of people. There are some who resign themselves to faith even when they do know they are better than the rulers. To criticize such leadership is a taboo for them. But there is always a minority that’s sincerely repulsed by crass in high places. As far as this particular group is…

Photo credit: Oklahoma Ag I can remember someone on a campaign for the 2nd Republic ruling party in Nigeria then saying about a rival who was a vegetarian that, in the confines of his home, he ate meat more than a wolf. The man later became our hope for 1993, but eventually, the president that…

Photo credit: Blackpast I have known the Nobel Laureate, Prof Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, who we fondly call Uncle Wole, Kongi, Prof and WS, for almost as long as I have known myself. He and my dad, Bola Ige were very close friends. They must have met at University College Ibadan, UCI- now University of Ibadan….

Photo credit: Thisdaylive Not many people might know he was approached to be President to assuage what they saw as the injustice done to the south west due to the regretful annulment of June 12. But he was honest enough to know he couldn’t serve as a good party man. While he and others were…

Photo credit: the Punch When the late Prof Ola Rotimi wrote a play titled, ‘Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again’, some of us might have thought he was being too harsh on our military rulers. The Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, once advised that people about to contest political posts in Nigeria should first be…

Photo credit: Channels TV WoleSoyinka #CountdownTo90 Naija Book ClubTosin Adeoti about an hour ago asked on another post what I still consider a pertinent question even though it can be somewhat pesky : “How readable is Soyinka’s book?”Amede Isaac, a Soyinka’s Disciple like my humble self understandably took umbrage and more or less ‘lashed out’…