John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo: Nigeria’s bard, playwright and activist
SOLA BALOGUN, Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti AHEAD of his death on October 13, 2020, the renowned Nigerian poet and playwright John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo had given instructions on his burial. He wrote a poem, “My Last Testament”: This is to my family Do not take me to a mortuary, Do not take me to a church, Whether I die in or out of town, But take me home to my own, and To lines and tunes, tested on the waves Of time, let me lie in my place On the Kiagbodo River. If Moslems do it…