By the third week of July 2026, the Egba hills are not merely vibrating; they are screaming. At the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, history has ceased to be a quiet archive of curated triumphs and has instead become a literal projectile.
The report that the ‘Ebora Owu’, a nonagenarian of formidable, curdled vitriol, hurled Eniola Bello’s Shadows: Protest Essays on Africa’s Most Consequential Country (1999–2023) across the room because it dared to exhume the ‘Third Term’ bogeyman is perhaps the most perfect summation of our Fourth Republic.
In the ‘Democrazy’ practised here, history is not a mirror for reflection; it is a brick to be lobbed at any chronicler who refuses to participate in the hagiography of the General.
Yet, the book toss was merely the overture. The real theatre lies in the blistering, patronising letter Obasanjo fired off to Chief Olusegun Osoba, the Akinrogun of Egbaland, Aremo of Ijebuland
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