Adedokun’s Latest Work, ‘The Danfo Driver in All of Us’ Released

‘The Danfo Driver in All of Us’, a compilation of Niran Adedokun’s personal reflections and interventions on a variety of topical national issues published in prestigious newspapers and magazines in the last eight years has been released.

Narrative Landscape Press, a Lagos-based publishing firm, announced the release of the new book in a statement made available to TCN.

According to the statement, the book seeks 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.”

Since 2012, when his first opinion 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.

Niran Adedokun

Commenting on feedbacks received from his articles, Adedokun said: “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.”

Publisher, Premium Times newspaper, Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi, 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.”

For Editor-in-Chief, Supreme Court Reports, Layi Babatunde, SAN, the book is an instrument to save the country from looming scourge as “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.”

In his remarks, Editor-in-Chief, The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene said: “the 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.”

Adedokun, a public relations expert, lawyer and writer is also the author of ‘Ladies Calling the Shots’, a profile of 17 top female film and television directors in Nigeria which was published in 2017.