Drawing parallels between the African politicians and the creative writer, Nuruddin Farah argued that because the average African politician was unable to think straight, he is defining posterity as a frame within his term of office, while the creative writer sees it as a future which is not dished out in four or five yearly governorship or Presidential term of office, but measured in centuries.
Conversely, there is no doubt that politicians, as argued by Nuruddin, are the same thing everywhere when it comes to defining posterity; but there are still a few of them who are Sworn Enemies of such vigesimal convention.
They are industrious and leaving behind worthy and enduring legacies which are not only outliving their terms of office but which posterity stands to appraise in centuries.
Aregbesola
It is to this class of Sworn Enemies of Convention that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola happily belongs.
Aregbesola curiously deviated from the socio-political vigesimal system which believes that the legacy or heritage of the proverbial African politicians must not last beyond two terms or at most for twenty years.
It is this act of venturing into socio-political zones of thoughts never surveyed in the annals of African style of politics that equips Aregbesola with uncommon posterity mindset , and makes his philosophy and way of governance a highly significant phenomenon.
As far as progressive politics is concerned in this land , Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has changed the status quo for better, and this is what this biography is all about.
The book has dared to go outside of the three-phase vigesimal and traditional stereotype to writing biography by also venturing into the new area of cosmological perspective to character study of leadership:
Bold in its revelation; Credible in its fact-presentation as well as in its corroboration of details while it’s creative in its adjudication.
This is the story of a twelve year spiritual sojourn into unraveling the manliness of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, a Superman and Sworn enemy of Vigesimal Convention.
