Who sent my name to the embassy? In the same cryptlike way I got the message, I inquired and got the answer: Wole Soyinka.
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Military oppression was then at a crescendo. For the brutalised media, underground reporting, popularised as guerrilla journalism, had become the preferred modus operandi for some professional journalists who had not been forced into exile. Those at home bravely challenged incipient fascism.
Kongi’s knack for coordinating radical initiatives behind the curtains, never forgetting fellow combatants for a better Nigeria, and assisting or showing solidarity when required, would seem to be some of his least openly acknowledged radical attributes and contributions to the emancipation of the Nigerian nation.
My recollection in the memoir goes: “The first was during the struggle to free Fela from detention. It happened shortly after agents of the military government seized copies of Fela’s ‘Army Arrangement’ and the promotional vests. A worried Dr. Beko Kuti had inquired if I could help reach out to his cousin Prof. Wole Soyinka for a meeting to explore the possibility of his intervention. I accepted the task and travelled to the UNIFE campus. Prof.
All said, many like me are 13 July birthday mates of Kongi, but this year’s celebration has been about the Nobel Laureate – a many-sided dynamic activist and humanist who literary-wise, politics-wise and social commentary-wise has significant footprints on the sands of time.
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