Niran Adedokun, has released his latest work titled The Danfo Driver in All of Us.
Narrative Landscape Press, a Lagos-based independent publishing company made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday.
The book is a collection of Adedokun‘s 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.
Commenting on the reaction to his articles, the author stated : “Even though I practiced as a journalist for over a decade…. I never imagined that I would write commentaries about anything and gain attention for doing it.”
According to Narrative Press, “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.”
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Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher/CEO, Premium Times newspaper, described the book as a “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.”
Praise from Other Critics
Layi Babatunde, SAN, Editor-in-Chief, Supreme Court Reports; stated that the book is an instrument to save the country from looming scourge.
‘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,” he said.
“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,” Azu Ishiekwene MD/Editor-In-Chief, The Interview added.
On his part, Victor Ehikhamenor, Founder/Artist Director, Angel and Muse had this to say: “This is a book you will discover and rediscover yourself no matter who you are.”
About the author
Niran Adedokun is a public relations practitioner, lawyer and writer. Adedokun is also a columnist with The PUNCH and Thecable.ng newspapers, and publisher of www.eelive.ng. His first book Ladies Calling the Shots, a profile of seventeen top female film and television directors in Nigeria; was published in 2017. The Danfo Driver in All of Us and Other Essays is his second book.
Lagos-based independent publishing company, Landscape Press which was founded by Anwuli Ojogwu and Dr.Eghosa Imasuen in 2016; is a traditional publishing company that publishes African voices.
The Narrative Landscape imprint boasts of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Marlon James. The company also provides publishing services to other publishing houses and self-publishing authors within the Nigerian space.
To purchase The Danfo Driver in All of Us visit contact@narrativelandscape.com or call 09090554406-7.
The book can also be purchased at Roving Height Bookstore and other bookstores around the country.