Lawyer and public relations practitioner, Niran Adedokun, has released his new book, The Danfo Driver in All of Us, for general consumption.
Publisher, Narrative Landscape Press, announced the release of the book in a statement on Wednesday.
“We are pleased to announce the release of the latest work by Niran Adedokun, titled, The Danfo Driver in All of Us, a collection of his commentary and opinion pieces published in national newspapers and prestigious magazines in the last eight years.
“Since 2012, when his first article was published in The PUNCH newspaper, he has continued to write about mainstream social, political, and religious issues with humour, passion and insightful perspective that connects with the public and gets national attention. According to the author: ‘Even though I practised as a journalist for over a decade…. I never imagined that I would write commentaries about anything and gain attention for doing it,’” the statement read.
The collection attempts to “deconstruct Nigeria and the people that inhabit it – the proclivities that set us back, the opportunities that go to waste, the potential that we never realise and the future for which we fail to prepare.”
Publisher/CEO, Premium Times newspaper, Dapo Olorunyomi, described the collection as “…keen insight in depicting the Nigerian condition. Only few books, using the genre of commentary journalism in recent times have come this close to this convincing testimony.”
A senior lawyer and Editor-in-Chief, Supreme Court Reports, Layi Babatunde, said: “It offers simple but imaginative recipes to save ourselves and country from the looming scourge of “two for a kobo” emotional and physical death. It is certainly worth reading.”
MD/Editor-in-Chief, The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene, said about the book: “Prose is compelling, and it will amuse the reader. By the time you get off this danfo ride … you can’t help laughing most of the time.”
Mr Adedokun is a columnist with The PUNCH and Thecable.ng newspapers, and is the publisher of www.eelive.ng. His first book, Ladies Calling the Shots, a profile of 17 top female film and television directors in Nigeria, was published in 2017.
