In discussing the above topic, permit me to begin from a seemingly intangible occurrence that happened during the week that just ended. Yoruba Waka music singer, Salawa Abeni caused a stir on the information highway last Wednesday when she released her own nude pictures on social media. The 58-year-old musician was being blackmailed by a certain Jason who threatened to expose her nude pictures. Abeni thus decided to share the pictures with the world, even before her blackmailer could.
“Soyinka is not a medical professor. His qualifications are in English literature, and his prizes are for writing books and plays for theatres. He is of course entitled to his opinions – but that is exactly all they are: semantics, not science.
During the week too, an apparently fake news of the passage of Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, gained currency on the social media. Kyari, who had tested positive to the coronavirus, is currently sequestered in God-knows-where. While government claimed that he was receiving treatment in an infirmary in Lagos, an official of the Lagos government said he could not be accounted for in Lagos. In the thick of this, all manner of postulations emerged as to his whereabouts.
“Why just sit here until we die? If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.” That seems to be the choice of already hungry Nigerians between hunger and coronavirus.
This is why Shehu’s doggerel against Soyinka is at best, faction. Faction in literature is a portmanteau of “fact” and “fiction.
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