Playwright and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday led members of the Pyrates Confraternity as they paid their last respects to Emeritus Prof. Biodun Jeyifo, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Prof. Jeyifo, who died at the age of 80, was laid to rest in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Members of the confraternity, popularly known as the Pirates, gathered alongside family, friends and colleagues to honour the late scholar, who was widely respected in academic and intellectual circles.
Jeyifo, a respected literary critic, Marxist scholar, public intellectual and committed trade unionist, died on February 11, barely one month and five days after family members, friends and former students gathered in Lagos to celebrate his 80th birthday.
As mourners began arriving at the cemetery on Wednesday, members of the Pyrates Confraternity were already assembled in their distinctive attire—white shirts, black trousers and red regalia, singing, drumming and performing ritual dances as they awaited Soyinka’s arrival.
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