With a vast number of African octogenarians regarded as repositories of the African cultures, history and values, the challenge has been how to extract or ‘download’ and document the wealth of their experiences and knowledge before they passed on.

At some point, Freedom Ohaka’s elder brother, Charles Ohaka, the great footballer and former captain of Spartans FC, came to Lagos and joined us in the one room at Mafoluku. By that time Freedom’s work had stopped. So in the room, out of the four of us living there, I was the only one who was working.

Despite the economic crunch biting the nation, organisrs of the annual Wole Soyinka birthday celebration,Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Project, WSICE 84, again rolled out the drums in celebration of the 84th birthday of the Nobel laureate, Prof. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka.

From a historic point of view, it is also the most beautiful and precious attraction in Moscow and according to a tourist guide handbook, the only one that should not be missed even if you are in Moscow for only a few hours.

She made this disclosure  at the conference tagged “J.P. Clark International Conference (JPCIC-2018)”, the first in an envisaged series of annual conferences in which the works of celebrated Nigerian writer and scholar, Professor J.P. Clark-Bekederemo is brought into focus to test their appeal and perennial relevance in a changing world.