Tag: kunle ajibade
In honour of Odia Ofeimun
Odia Ofeimun is formidably learned and insightful. His poetry and journalism are distinguished by their eloquence and dazzling intelligence.
Revelations, as Ajibade engages Ojudu, Oroh on June 12, activism at LABAF
Ajibade—who also did three years in Makurdi Prison after being jailed for life by the Abacha regime—opened the conversation thus:…
Jailed for Life: Beyond Death and Dictatorship
It is getting to 25 years when Jailed for Life: A Reporter’s Prison Notes by Kunle Ajibade was published. A…
Kunle Ajibade: The legend of conscience Abacha could not kill
In his as ever combative foreword to What a Country!, the acclaimed poet, essayist and political commentator, Odia Ofeimun, wrote…
DAME to honour Ajibade Nov. 30
After graduation, he worked as a Copywriter with Grant Advertising in Lagos; Senior Correspondent, The African Concord; Assistant Editor, The…
A daughter’s search for her father, how a country found its missing pages
When Nigerien filmmaker, Amina Mamani, lost her father Mamani Abdoulaye, novelist, writer, poet, activist and politician in a rather extenuating…
Becoming Taiwo Taiwo
Kunle Ajibade shows that Chief Mrs Taiwo Taiwo, in her autobiography, My Mother’s Daughter, is a champion who fights a…
Photo News: Amaechi, RMD, others attend Wole Soyinka’s book launch
It was an evening of music spiced with readings of excerpts from Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka's new book, Chronicles…
Paying the Price for Press Freedom in Nigeria
It was Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright and screenwriter that succinctly opined that “I still believe that if your…
Tribute for Kunle Ajibade
If you knew Kunle Ajibade in his early days of journalism, he would not invoke the image of a jailbird…
Kunle Ajibade @ 60
It was indeed a colourful day. One you would wish lingered for a little longer, but then every good thing…
Photo News: Faces at Kunle Ajibade’s Colloquium
Earlier today, Omoluabi to the core, Mr Ajibade on the occasion of his 60th birthday, was today honoured in a…
Kunle Ajibade colloquium: Ajibade, a man worthy of emulation
Iconic and renowned journalist, editor and author, Mr Kunle Ajibade is an Omoluabi who served as a reporter for various…
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…
Of Gbadegesin’s Sense of Duty
By Kunle Ajibade William Faulkner, the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote in one of his novels,…