In an interview with Sahara TV, the writer, poet & social critique
said late premier of the old Western region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was a
greater man than South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, Dr. Nelson
Mandela.
I am too much of an Awolowo man not to
see that the process of moving into independence in South Africa and in
Nigeria followed exactly the same pattern. It was based on a negotiated
settlement. The liberation struggle did not create the end of apartheid.
It was a negotiation and Nigerians negotiated exactly the way Mandela
negotiated.
