OBITUARY: Pius Adebola Adesanmi (1972 -2019): Deploring An Untimely Transition
Possibly his most enduring role was that of the inconvenient man of letters who kept sentry to public morality and ethics, hovering the fringes of the errant moment, then swiftly rising to caution, needle or upbraid . Words were his weapon of choice, apparently compelled by a conscience stitched to truth, and regularly giving wings to his angst. This was, conceivably, his bequeathed responsibility as a son of a headmaster, who was a custodian of communal propriety.
Mr. Adesanmi was to subsequently join the Faculty in Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 2006, where he went on to distinguish himself in a precocious manner as full Professor of Literature and African Studies, and Director of the University’s Institute of African Studies. These were positions he held till his untimely passage on March 10, when he was bound for a meeting of the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
Perhaps larger than Mr Adesanmi’s academic acknowledgement was his humungous following as a public intellectual, particularly on social media. For upwards of two decades, he was a prominent feature on opinion pages in the Nigerian media. He maintained a highly followed column in the PREMIUM TIMES, through which he ran commentaries imbued with a satirical verve, x-raying the absurdity of much of our national condition.
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