Opinion: Dele Momodu At 60, By Shola Oshunkeye
My path crossed with Basorun Dele Momodu’s in June 1989. I had got tired of the federal civil service and I was thinking of a new challenge as well as planning my exit from the laboratory. I had also started planning my retirement from the Nigeria Stored Products Research Institute, NSPRI, Ilorin, Kwara State, where I was a Science Technologist.newspaper in the Kwara State capital, where I met Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of, I caught the journalism virus.
His style? I can’t find the appropriate word to describe Dele’s style. Very articulate, he could be chatty one moment, then compendious or conversational in another. Other times, he could be emphatic or epigrammatic. Whatever style he chooses to tell his story, he does so with panache, using flowery language to dismantle the most complicated of issues. No matter the style, Dele makes words sing. At his command, words wax lyrical.
Wherever I went that weekend, I behaved like the agama lizard. Like the agama lizard would do after diving from a tall tree, nodding its head in self-adulation on landing, I also indulged in some self-admiration. Dele didn’t contribute to my VOX POP. It is the stuff for boys. But he put his Midas touch on my subsequent story. King Sunny Ade had been my idol since primary school in Ilesa. He still is my idol as far as juju music is concerned. His name and music excite me like no other. Though a rookie reporter, I had wandered into King Sunny Ade’s office at Jibowu, Lagos, thinking I could interview him. Imagine my audacity.
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