Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University convocation lecture (5) Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University convocation lecture (5)
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TODAY we take snippets from the remaining part of Femi Falana’s Ekiti State University Convocation Lecture as we draw the curtains on this very topical, well-researched, well-articulated, even if controversial, lecture. This is as should be expected of someone who had never shied away from controversy. Starting out as Patrick and “Omo Fada” (who attended to Catholic priests and who, himself, was in line to becoming one), then an atheist later in life, a radical and revolutionary activist on campus at Ife, who later drank from the well of human and civil rights activists and social crusaders like Alao Aka-Bashorun, Baba Omojola, Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, before rubbing shoulders with the likes of stormy petrel, Gani Fawehinmi, fire-eaters like Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Beko Ransome-Kuti, to mention but a few, Falana has etched his name