On Bándélé’s Swan Song: A Review of Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé
“Run, Àjàyí, Run” is the apprehensive and lyrical title of the opening part of the posthumously published Biyi Bándélé’s Yorùbá Boy Running. When readers reach the passage that reveals the context of the phrase, one hardly escapes the nostalgia from the ending of Orwell’s Animal Farm, “Àjàyí looked at Ìjí and Ìjí looked at Àjàyí”…