A great friend of this author died on December 23, 2023, and was buried last week. Everybody knew him as the Oloja of a fictional Oja village, Oba Ajelende, whose Yoruba drawl epitomised the lives of the majority rural population of Nigeria, in a characterisation that was at once risible and serious
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