Pen, piano and scalpel – the life and times of Olufolabi Olumide

In the flesh, he was impressive, not through an in-your-face projection of power and presence, but in the calm, self-assurance of his demeanour. Folabi Olumide – poet, pianist, Professor of Surgery, died in Lagos recently, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was a careful, meticulou