My editors and superiors in the news room then, such as Mr Jahman Anikulapo, Ambassador Debo Adesina and our overall boss, Mr Emeka Izeze, who then often thought of me as an asset to the newspaper (which is very humbling), will tell me that my closeness to Soyinka is a confirmation of what they had always known. So you see why I am grateful to WS.
Among those who insist that truth-telling is an indispensable form of nation building, Professor Wole Soyinka is the greatest.
And I don’t mean this merely when he is often telling those in government the truth or only when it is done in public. I mean for all times, seasons and for all purposes.
Here is the story of what Soyinka (who is not only to be referred to as Alagba, but also as Baba, not just by his biological children but so many of us), means to me.
In 1992 as a Correspondent of The Guardian newspapers in Ibadan, I had gone to the BCOS to cover a live radio interview with…