DescriptionKunle Ajibade goes beyond the narrative aesthetics of /ailed jor Lijfe: A Reporter’s Prison Notes to grapple with questions of justice, popular welfare, human rights, and good governance. Although taking Nigeria as the site of the many debilities and devilries that maul the values that he upholds, he adopts a universal and universalizing code that is answerable to the demands of ordinary people everywhere. He never let go of the respect for human value, the shared space that the creativity of writers, human rights activists, and pro-democracy workers -especially the leading lights, avatars, and exemplars of the cause the world at great risks to their own lives have defended across Odia Ofeimun What a Country! is eloquent and poignant. Its vision is broad, both powerfully anchored in local knowledge and robustly cosmopolitan. Its passion for the betterment of Nigeria indeed, what a country! is evident and infectious. It is, above all, an affirmation of the power of writing and of critical journalism as instruments of change of that passion. A terrific achievement. -Tejumola Olaniyan
