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TASUED:What will ‘they’ do now?
Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:10
The story was once told of a monarch – you may call him Chief/Thief! – who led his gang to rob the convoy of a white man who had just paid his palace a courtesy call.
Continued from last week
IT is impossible not to feel a deep sense of loss at the passing of our very own wordsmith, Professor Chinualumogu Achebe.
The motto of Obafemi Awolowo University is ‘For Learning and Culture’. No one academic in Nigeria reflects and personifies that maxim more than Professor Chinua Achebe. The grandfather of modern English literature in Africa was both a colossus in learning as he was a thorough bred and highly cultivated individual in manners and character.
This column is not out to amuse or to pander to any one’s exaggerated self importance. Beginning from today, this column will say it as it is and will not submit to any pretence. We live in a country that is almost in tatters and those who have collected the mandate to fix it are busy fixing themselves and their families while feeding fat on our common patrimony.
