BUKAR USMAN: The Human Library
By Chief Tola Adeniyi
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Africa’s most prolific author and writer and Public Intellectual Dr BUKAR USMAN, has a date with the Nobel.
He is unarguably the most engaging and easily the most productive writer of his generation shunning books at the speed of lightning.
His books, some of which run 1500 ledger-size pages are a rich mine of knowledge, innovation, and interrogation of long held misconceptions of the world order.
Usman writes as a philosopher, a classical philosopher he is; as a historian, as a political economist and often times as a Sage.
He continues to mesmerize his readers with new and fresh ideas about life and its meaning, about people and our place on earth, about our relationship with one another.
In his poetry and his prose, his pen dances smoothly and majestically to the rhythm of his intrinsic thought.
At 84, the world expects Usman’s 85th birthday to carry the golden trophy of Nobel laureate.
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do something worth writing about”–Benjamin Franklin
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This tribute was written by Chief Tola Adeniyi aka Muhammadu Saheed. Tola Adeniyi a former Federal Permanent Secretary in the Presidency. He was also a notable columnist in the Nigerian Tribune under the pen name ‘Aba Saheed’; Editor-in-Chief of the same newspaper paper and later the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Times. Currently, he is the Chairman/Managing Consultants of ‘Knowledge Plaza’ and Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Canada College and Canadian University Press, Toronto. The tribute was received on May 13, 2026.
