I think there was a kind of exotic nature––the transitional life of Victorian England that he captured was to me so exotic. It may not be very surprising if Wole is described as an academically average student at GCI, just like Adelugba does. That Wole managed to make a credit in Mathematics must have been the supreme shock of the 1950 GCI School Certificate Exams. I couldn’t wait to drop it the moment I left school, just like that. One of these prophecies had come from no less a personally than the British headmaster of the school.

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2018 04:41 UTC