Remembering Dele Giwa

By Tayo Ogunbiyi
Some   deaths are mourned, buried and gradually surrendered to the custody of history. Others refuse to lie still. They return with the stubbornness of unfinished business, knocking at the conscience of a nation, disturbing its sleep and asking questions for which time has provided no answers. The death of Dele Giwa belongs to the latter category.
On October 19, 1986, a parcel bomb delivered to his home in Ikeja, Lagos, exploded, fatally injuring the celebrated journalist. He was 39. Four decades later, the man is gone, the calendar has moved relentlessly forward, generations have been born and grown, governments have come and gone, but the central question remains ...