Comrade Segun Osoba – remember him? He celebrated his 90th birthday last Thursday at his country home of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. Family, friends, comrades and students of the Marxist ideologue gathered to give Dr. Osoba 90 hearty cheers. Comrade, as we fondly called him, was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the then University of Ife (now …

Just as they say that social media neither sleep nor slumber, history also never forgets! The saying goes that today’s happenings constitute tomorrow’s history. Some of my contemporaries at Great Ife used to summarise History, my course of study, as “Oba ku; Oba je” meaning, one king dies and another reigns in his stead. Or they would say History is …