Today, 39 years, 4 months and 5 days ago, Chief Ọbafẹmi Awolọwọ - baptismal name Jeremiah, went silent. I sat down to calculate not for any academic reason, but because I needed to feel how long we have been wandering without a compass. On May 9, 1987, when he left us, armed robbery was still a shameful secret. Kidnapping was something you heard about in foreign films. Banditry belonged to American Westerns, not Nigerian forests. Look at us now. Every single evil he warned ag