Biodun Jeyifo: The Intellectual as a Revolutionary

Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, By Owei Lakemfa

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against […] The post Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, By Owei Lakemfa appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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