To all those who have offered up views on Prof Bako's Inaugural Lecture, I am Chidi Anselm Odinkalu.
I was honestly minded to un-look after reading it twice for reasons that will follow shortly. But given the depth of your effort, I want to offer a limited and deliberately narrow complement.
For a relatively short-ish Inaugural Lecture delivered on the eve of retirement after nearly 45 years teaching and researching Nigerian history, this text is riddled with distressing errors of text, context, sub-text, and texture.
