Soyinka is Africa’s legendary intellectual but never before has he himself documented such large claims for his moral pre-eminence, his exemplary fulfilment of the intellectual’s mission in the African society as its representative, its curator of memory, its specialist of consciousness, and its looming conscience…

The ESPN match commentator described the manner of victory as “unorthodox”. You could hardly be more apt in your own description of this night at Madison Square Garden. Samuel “the Nigerian Nightmare” Peter is now the substantive WBC heavyweight champion of the world…