Abiola Irele
25 Oct 2020
On December 14, 2019, which is ten months ago, I had one of those chance encounters that seem too propitious not to memorialise. So, I made the following post, together with photos, on WhatsApp and Facebook....
13 Aug 2017
The hard reality is that Irele’s dilemma was not a personal one, but a feature of a national, and continental travail. As it turned out, his contribution at that symposium was coincident with Biodun Jeyifo’s discussion of de-territorialization...
6 Aug 2017
In 1986, a tribe of Nigerian writers, journalists and academics were in Stockholm to celebrate the award of the first Nobel Prize for literature to a writer of African descent.
16 Jul 2017
Nigeria currently mourns two literary giants of different traditions. One of them is Abiola Irele, renowned Professor of French and African Literature and the other, Shaykh Mustapha Zuglool...
9 Jul 2017
When Serendipity conspires with Fate, the result is almost invariably a combination of astonishment and eye-popping bewilderment. This observation provides a painfully perfect script for my own ‘Irele narrative’, especially with regard to my interactions...
9 Jul 2017
Prof. Abiola Irele's exit into the world beyond vibrates with sorrowful resonances in us because it evokes the echoes of what artists tell us about the puzzling inevitability of death in our earthy existence.
25 Apr 2017
Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi turned 70 on April 13 this year. Since Nigeria’s longevity age is said to be 53.1 years, Yemi has beaten that death-line by 16.9 years.
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News of the passing of foremost professor of oral literature in Africa, Isidore Okpewho, has jolted the literary and scholarly world. And reactions from Nigeria’s academic community have continued ...
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