AYO OLUKOTUN: A REQUIEM TOO EARLY THIS DAWN Tunde Olusunle pays tribute to Olukotun, an academic and insightful media professional, aged 69 My brother, namesake and senior colleague, Tunde Ipin
Tunde Olusunle pays tribute to Olukotun, an academic and insightful media professional, aged 69
The subsequent outpouring of grief from the highest quarters, is evidence of the veneration and esteem Olukotun was held. From Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President, through Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, the attendant lachrymose has been most palpable. Olukotun’s countrymen as well as colleagues in the media and academia, still wield their tear-soaked handkerchiefs in mournful despair.
His hair and face were already interspersed with grey strands at the time, which in some cultures is physical evidence of wisdom and knowledge. His doctorate was yet on the way, but he was already playing the part of an authentic intellectual. He was already well published in books and journals at that time by the way, so was thoroughly grounded. The quantum quality he breathed, spoke volumes of his deep immersion in scholarship.
Olukotun was something of a “career student” of the Obafemi Awolowo University, , from the primordial years of the institution’s nomenclature of “University of Ife,” . He obtained all his three degrees, bachelors to doctorate from that citadel in 1976; 1982 and 2006, respectively. He was a unionist who was Secretary and President of the Students’ Union respectively, at various times.
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