Tag: Biodun Jeyifo
‘Rest in power’: ASUU pays tribute to Biodun Jeyifo
The union highlighted his formative role at Obafemi Awolowo University, where he contributed significantly to the growth of ASUU and…
Renowned scholar Biodun Jeyifo dies at 80
Biodun Jeyifo's distinguished career further includes senior professorships at Cornell University and Harvard University, where he was Professor Emeritus of…
WSCIJ to celebrate renowned scholar Jeyifo at 80 in Lagos
Jeyifo is generally regarded as the world’s pre-eminent scholarly authority on the works and career of Wole Soyinka. His award-winning…
Hunger and poverty as tools for democracy and development: Egeremiti!
I suggest that at the root of the president’s indifference to the hunger is a legitimation crisis that did not…
Truth, falsehood, justice, dystopia
It is especially unique among Nobel literature laureates, most of whom tend to publish few works after the award of…
Eschatology of those who will be remembered: For Professor Ayo Banjo
If eschatology is philosophical and theological thought and discourse(s) pertaining to the last, final things about this life and the…
For Seinde and Dunni Arigbede: Making Haste Slowly for Human Equality
Eventually, I chose to dedicate the book to three people, Eddie Madunagu, the late Ntiem Kungwai and Seinde Arigbede, one…
Biodun Jeyifo’s Humanising Pedagogy by Kunle Ajibade
By Kunle Ajibade When we learnt on December 14 1987 that Dr Biodun Jeyifo had resigned from the University of…
Wole Soyinka, others celebrate Biodun Jeyifo at 70
Gbenro Adesina Tuesday January 5 2016, scholars, academics, family and friends of the renowned Harvard professor, literary critic, scholar and…
The Orator’s Last Bow
(For Columbus Chukwujindu Ihekaibeya, 1942-2004) Niyi Osundare No two acts could have been more dramatic in their tragic coincidence. I…