Tag: Memory

Afenifere: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (In Memory of Chief Ayo Adebanjo), By Akin Osuntokun

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Yesterday In the understanding of ‘ethnicity as the expression of solidarity and common loyalty of peoples who share among themselves a country and a culture’- Chief Obafemi Awolowo was right to commit himself to the notion and evolution of ethnic solidarity among the Yoruba. To put it in his precise phrase “I would see to it […]

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In Memory of Ayo Adebanjo, By Akin Osuntokun

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The Obafemi Awolowo ‘papal bull’ issued against President Olusegun Obasanjo designating him as number one enemy of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, was more than enough cue for Awoists to regard bellicosity towards the former President as virtue. You remember the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, party convention in Yola in 1982 dubbed the […]

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