Funsho Aiyejina And The ilks: Soyinka's Generation

Iron sharpens iron and so goes the whole adage and you cannot but become a metalic iron of your golden self when you associate yourself with intelligence and intergrity and wisdom bigger than yourself.

I was impressed and astonished with the G.G.Darah's essay entitled Fundi Aiyejina: Tribute to a global quester.The kind of intellectual tradition and intellectual eroticism that fermented our literary landscape in particular in the nation's top ivory towers might have been responsible for throwing up the literary giants like WOLE Soyinka that frequented our national literary firmament in the pre and post independent era.

G.G.Darah former managing director of a top print media house now a professor of literary studies at the university of ife examines the power of literature.He opens the essay published in Tribune on 13 July 2024 page.15,with encomium of Funsho Aiyejina pouring tributes to a life of fulfilment.Little did it occur before this critical insight that the quality of educational input at the varsity level tends the to determine the input quality of media services and critical influence of media industry in the growth of the nation and her economy in general.It rest largely on the power of arts and culture embedded in the infrastructure of local literature to heal the wound and enhances the quality of nation building at a particular period.The primacy of human development determines the welfare of this positive growth and sustainability of national development respectively.

He extolled Funsho Aiyejina's accompaniments and his undying faith in the power of literature and the arts to heal the wounds of a nation especially where things had fallen and somewhat irreversible.However depending on the discretionary expenditure of the viewers they endowed the with strategic quality of human resources that left the world speechless and dumbfounded as the like of Ola Rotimi,Woke Soyinka,Kole Omotosho,Niyi Osundare,Odia Odeimum,Femi Osofisan,Akinwunmi ishola,Yemi Ogunbiyi etcetera strolled the world of literature like a colossus and indeed there colosusess of the arts and a pacesetter for successive generation albeit their less passionate succulent fervour of arts were emboldened to reenact golden age in their own way.

Take a look and read through the two departments in the great ife.