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In the early rainy season of 1975, a battered Volkswagen Beetle carrying two young academics crossed the Togo-Ghana border. The car’s owner, a thirty-year-old lecturer at the University of Ìbàdàn named Biodun Jéyǐfò, had embarked on what he would later call a “special mission”—a journey from Ìbàdàn to Accra to persuade Wọlé Ṣóyínká to end […]

By Sọlá Adéyẹmí (University of East Anglia, UK) There are scholars whose passing feels like the quiet extinguishing of a star; and there are others whose departure alters the very atmosphere of intellectual life. Bíọ́dún Jéyǐfó belonged firmly to the latter category. His death at the age of eighty is not simply the loss of […]

Susanne Wenger may have lived in Òṣogbo, but Ìbàdàn always found a way to tug her back. The distance between the two cities wasn’t exactly a stroll, though it wasn’t terribly far either. She would often hop in her car, cruise through the roads connecting both towns, stop over in Ìbàdàn for a few hours […]