Some of my lecturers in the History department such as Prof. Femi Omosini, Dr Biodun Adediran and Toyin Fálọlá, were ready to be my mentors believing that I would do my graduate studies in the History department. But I disappointed them all by switching over to the Department of International Relations. I decided to study international relations at the master’s …

If there was a prize for Nigeria’s No 1 letter writer, journalist-turned-lawyer and one-time minister, Tony Momoh would appear to be the undisputed champion. The late Momoh performed the difficult task of making sense of General Ibrahim Babangida’s largely messy and convoluted political and economic programmes by writing regular letters to “fellow countrymen”. His extensive and elaborate undertaking later packaged …