Omoyele Sowore: The Unicorn in a Sea of Phonies, by Osmund Agbo In 1992, long before vested interests hijacked student union politics in Nigerian universities and turned it into a plaything for the government in power, a firebrand activist led over five thousand students in protest against General Ibrahim Babangida’s military junta. That maverick, a lanky figure serving as the President of the Students' Union Government (SUG) at the University of Lagos, was Omoyele “Yele” Sowore. Predictably, the protest did not end well for him and his comrades. Much like the...