Professor Toyin Falola has put it most concisely: Pius Adesanmi is the
man who leaves and lives. He argues that although Adesanmi is leaving the
scene, still he lives. He’s gone, but he’s not done. He’s gone, but he’s still
on. He’s dead, but not dusted. There is more to Falola’s dirge than the lyrical
alliteration.
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There’s also more to the oxymoron of a departure that yet defies an
exit. To capture or press a point, you must confront it with its alter ego. To
prove Adesanmi 'lives' on, you challenge his death with the greater fact of
what he has left behind that offers assurance of his being alive, as it were.
You put the two opposite each other: Adesanmi’s death and his works and life
that touched many he seems to have left orphaned.
