You look right, you look left and you concentrate the mind on the centre, the picture that hits you is that of Professor Bolaji Akinyemi. The image looms large for his untiring public intellectual engagement, public education and consistency. His weekly engagement on his YouTube programme, ‘thruMYeyes’ has reached Session 78. Two days ago, Prof. Akinyemi attained the octogenarian age of 80. The media has, predictably, been beside itself in excitement, celebrating the colossus since Sunday.
Akinyemi was born carrying with him great abilities waiting to be unfolded. He must have been told by his father as soon as he became capable of absorbing words of admonition— in the words of Hillarie Belloc: “Child! Do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure; Of cutting all pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.” Such is the importance of books in the life of Akinyemi and he wasted no time in grabbing it with both hands till this day.
At the time, hardly did anyone remember that the institute was there. But Akinyemi pumped oxygen into it, and injected it with energy tonic. The turn-around was dramatic and in consequence became Murtala Mohammed’s handy intellectual powerhouse. No one can forget in a hurry General Mohammed’s speech on Angola which signaled that the days of apartheid in South Africa were numbered. From then on Nigeria became one of the Southern African frontline states.
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