Newswatch Best is a collection of articles published in the magazine in its early days and months between 1985 and 1986. The selections, put together by Ray Ekpu, the publishing company’s current chief executive officer are not whimsical. While it is true that they are not representative of what Newswatch emphasised in the years covered, they are a thumb-sketch of some of the events, issues and ideas that gripped the public consciousness through their own life force or through the compelling force of their rendering.
The Kiss of Death: Afenifere and the Infidels is a graphic and candid assessment of the transition of Afenifere and its leaders into their twilight or, at best, into a long-drawn dormancy. The book is about high-wire politics, personal intrigues and political vendetta. It captures the process that led to the opening of the underbelly of Afenifere for piercing by a lurking enemy.
Aiyekooto is a collection of works of one of Nigeria’s masters of the art of the pen. Aiyekooto, parrot, is the friendly and homely bird reputed for telling the truth as it is. In Yoruba, it means “the world resents the truth”. The late Victor Olabisi Onabanjo wrote his Aiyekooto column for the Daily Service and the Daily Express, now both defunct, between 1954 and 1962; and for the Nigerian Tribune between 1987 and 1989. His columns, in which no subject is spared, exhibit profound candour, concern, wit, incisiveness and forthrightness. And they are characteristically readable and provocative. Importantly, Aiyekooto is undiminished and it is a body of work addressed to many generations – past, present and future.
Newswatch Best is a collection of articles published in the magazine in its early days and months between 1985 and 1986. The selections, put together by Ray Ekpu, the publishing company’s current chief executive officer are not whimsical. While it is true that they are not representative of what Newswatch emphasised in the years covered, they are a thumb-sketch of some of the events, issues and ideas that gripped the public consciousness through their own life force or through the compelling force of their rendering.
The Kiss of Death: Afenifere and the Infidels is a graphic and candid assessment of the transition of Afenifere and its leaders into their twilight or, at best, into a long-drawn dormancy. The book is about high-wire politics, personal intrigues and political vendetta. It captures the process that led to the opening of the underbelly of Afenifere for piercing by a lurking enemy.
Aiyekooto is a collection of works of one of Nigeria’s masters of the art of the pen. Aiyekooto, parrot, is the friendly and homely bird reputed for telling the truth as it is. In Yoruba, it means “the world resents the truth”. The late Victor Olabisi Onabanjo wrote his Aiyekooto column for the Daily Service and the Daily Express, now both defunct, between 1954 and 1962; and for the Nigerian Tribune between 1987 and 1989. His columns, in which no subject is spared, exhibit profound candour, concern, wit, incisiveness and forthrightness. And they are characteristically readable and provocative. Importantly, Aiyekooto is undiminished and it is a body of work addressed to many generations – past, present and future.