- A portrait of Nigeria’s former Minister of Education, late Professor Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa
By Okey Ndibe
To know Professor Aliu Babatunde (Babs) Fafunwa at close quarters was to be tempted into believing in the impossibility of his death. How could a man so graceful and rich in his humanity, so accomplished yet so gregarious and approachable, a man possessed of the deepest, most resonant laughter I ever heard – how could such a man die?
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