A toast to my dad, Baba Politicos, at 80
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A toast to my Dad @80, by Olusola Sanni
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well, you most certainly are. yes, you are. and the thing is, she s not writing stuff that s easy. no. i mean, she s writing stuff that is actually. that s right. ..extremely damning. so, she took a very conscious decision, when she was in her early 20s, and shortly before i was born, that if she is going to do this, then she has to do it properly. and she can t hide behind a pen name, which is what other journalists did out of fear of violent reprisals, and she can t censor herself. she can t moderate opinions she holds that are true to her, and that she has to just go for it. and as she said, and i quote this in the book, it was a double shock first that we had this voice, very lively, very honest and opinionated. second, that it was a woman, right? because she was the first woman to write a political column. and we re talking the early 905 here.