The Agip Recital Hall, MUSON centre, venue for this year’s graduation party of MTNF MUSON school of music was filled to capacity with enthusiastic guests made up of music lovers, friends and relatives of the graduating students. Those who could not find seats in the hall jostled to get a feel of the performance from the aisles and the entrances all for the sake of watching the graduands, exhibit their mastery of musical instruments and vocal renditions.

Reminiscences on the dark chapter of the deeds of colonial masters during the scramble for and partition of Africa is not in anyway, meant to revisit old wounds as that became history with attainment of independence.

Language, the source of Wole Soyinka’s fame, is the reason also for his alienation by the average reader. The Nobel laureate is a man of complex locution.

Businessman and jazz aficionado Oti Bazunu lives life on his own terms; and when in 2010 he decided to begin the November annual music festival that has come to be known as the Lagos Jazz Series, the terms of engagement, apparently, were designed to be as lofty as his lifestyle.

A biblical adage says that a prophet is not honoured in his home town but last week in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital the entire people of the state, led by their number 1 citizen, Senator Ibikunle Amosun rolled out drums for the celebration of their own, the renowned writer,poet, activist and first African Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who turned 80 last Sunday.