Nigeria, May 8 -- As Toyin Falola temporarily relocates to East and South Africa in the summer, giving lectures in Kenya, South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, and Botswana, he moves into what one can describe as "the orbit of intellectual comparison." He is not like the figures they are used to: Nurudeen Farah, Ngugi Wa Thing'o, and Wole Soyinka. He does not deal with the ambiguities of creative writing but the directness of intellectualism. He is a front-rank figure in African nationalist and political thought. As I prepared a public lecture on Toyin Falola, to be presented on 13 May, as part of an intellectual feast, I began to see how he resembles Wilmot Biden, Marcus Garvey, and WB Dubois. I eventually settled for an intellectual paradigm t...