Bought this on eBay. My favourite Ṣóyínká photo.

Will be nice to get him to reenact that pose today as an old man, between his newer carvings.

The photos were taken on October 1969 by a Daily Times reporter who has come to interview the playwright after his 29 months incarceration by the Nigerian government. The setting was the writer's house in Ebrohimie Road, University of Ìbàdàn.

There’s a short video from the encounter.

Yea, this attempt of mine, on the steps of his house in Abẹ́òkuta in 2018, wasn't the same at all. Lol! But it still earned "good try" from him. No, we need a true reenactment.

The photo was immortalised on the cover of Ìbàdàn the Penkelemes Years -- his 1994 memoirs of his early teenage years to the mid sixties.

The photo here was credited to Hulton Deutsch, though the original in the Times was credited to some Ọdúnsì (will confirm for sure later)

Anyway, great picture.

Those interested in the writer’s obsession with collecting carvings will enjoy this Aké Festival 2020 video exhibit of some of his personal collections at home.