Olaitan Oyerinde - Rest Not in Peace
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THIS piece was initially entitled: "Olaitan Oyerinde: A Machiavelli Unravels in Edo"; but I had to change it to "Olaitan Oyerinde: Rest not in peace" for an understandable reason: To flag down attention of readers to the narrative, which is both a tribute, in the plain literary logic, to a man who lived for the labour struggle but was, unfortunately, cut down by unknown gun men in the arena of conflict that has been given a political coloration, and a genre of message to a spirit being to fight for himself



