Harry Garuba
4 Mar 2020
The news of the passage of Harry Garuba I heard from Town Crier, Toyin Falola, is devastating and unsettling. Harry Garuba’s intellectual lantern was lit at the Ibadan Faculty of Arts Foyer in the 1980s where friends and defenders..
16 Sep 2018
Let me state from the outset, and very urgently indeed, that Tanure Ojaide is an outstanding defining poet, an outstanding defining writer, of our age.
25 Jul 2017
Francis Abiola Irele, who died in Boston on July 2 at the age of 81, was undoubtedly the foremost prophet of the concept of Negritude to which he devoted his entire intellectual career for over five decades.
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