Olu Obafemi
Icelebrate my bosom friend, brother and soulmate, David Ker, frontline literary scholar, university and public administrator, profound intellectual and fine gentleman, as he turns Seventy today. We may not eat food (the Tiv’s king of cultural cuisines) dressed with bush meat (Nyam toho) today, but I shall drink a little wine to your safe arrival at the portals of the Septuagenarian Season.
I do not find it difficult at all to write about my bosom friend and soulmate, David Iyornongu Ker, at any moment or time and from any perspective of our lives together, which is a year short of five decades today. What may be difficult for me to do is knowing what to leave out, as too private and what is for our ears only in our banter-full, laughter/humour, anecdote-surfeited fraternal lives together. This Tribute will therefore, in delivery strategy, oscillate between formal and direct manner of telling. This is because, it is one relationship that has transcended the confines of