October 2018 - Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

A REQUIEM FOR THE LIFELESS ONE

President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ”A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping. Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted because they are no more”- Jeremiah 31: 15. O lifeless one, you have lost all sense of decency and you are drunk with power.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER AND KEEPING THE FAITH

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My paternal great grandfather (my grandfather’s father), Rev. Emmanuel Adelabi Kayode, was an Anglican priest. He was educated by the Christian missionaries and the Anglican Church and he studied theology at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, Sierra Leonne which was at that time a satellite campus of the United Kingdom’s Universty of Durham. In 1892

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