Nigeria – This Is My Country, Damn It
Preface Passion and Patriotism in the Times of Tyranny By Dr. Bayo Williams On Saturday, 6th of June, 1998, from my Birmingham redoubt, I called Tunde Fagbenle, veteran journalist, publisher,…
Tunde Fagbenle
22
years of columns
1,000
columns published
3
books
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Tunde Fagbenle was publisher of London based Nigeria HomeNews weekly newspaper – newspaper for Nigerians in the Diaspora – from 1989 to 1992. He founded the UK based Movement for Democracy & Human Rights in Nigeria (MDHRN) whose activism together with his vitriolic newspaper columns earned him a stint of solitary confinement by the General Abacha military government in 1996. Fagbenle began writing his weekly newspaper column in 1995 in The Punch newspaper and subsequently appeared in The Tribune and The Daily Trust newspapers.
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Tunde Fagbenle was the popular columnist on back-page of Sunday Punch newspaper till 2017. Mr. Fagbenle is the founder/Chairman of Foundation for Values & Normative Change, aka Values Volunteers, an NGO that seeks to promote and inculcate positive values in Nigeria as a sine qua non for any hope of development. He has authored 3 books: Nigeria: This Is My Country, Damn It! (2000); Nigeria – A Thousand Laughs, A Thousand Cries (2010); And That’s Saying It The Way It Is (2017).
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”Fagbenle gives as much as he takes. He praises effusively, rolls with the punches and, damn it, as anyone at the receiving end of his attack might agree, he strikes like a rattlesnake. Love or hate him, you can hardly deny the honesty in his writings
Azu IshiekweneMD/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview