Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- Unlike Comrade Dipo Fashina (aka Jingo) and Comrade Segun Osoba, Comrade (Professor) Biodun Jeyifo never taught me at the University of Ife (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. But like other Marxist lecturers at the university such as Professor Toye Olorode, Idowu Awopetu, G. G. Darah, Malam Femi Taiwo and many others, BJ actually taught me outside the classroom walls.



He was a beacon and shining light of the radical Left at Great Ife. He was one of those lecturers who taught their students what they were not paid to teach, according to our military dictators who victimised them relentlessly for doing that. Yet, they were undeterred. The more they suffered, the more committed to the struggle they were. T...