By Emman Ozoemena
I am sad to hear about the passing of a great African, Prof. Okello Oculi, a scholar, poet, pan Africanist, activist and humanist today. He was a thought leader who was committed to seeing the best emerge from Africa.
With a metropolitan world view like the Stoics philosophers,
he dedicated his prodigious talents and intellectual resources towards
actualizing the grand vision of a united Africa.
Our paths crossed over two decades ago in the course of my work as a journalist at a workshop in Abuja, Nigeria, where he presented a paper. I remember vividly, I walked up to him during the tea break, and we had a conversation regarding his paper. We exchanged contacts thereafter, and had kept in touch since then.
