Aiyekooto is a collection of works of one of Nigeria’s masters of the art of the pen. Aiyekooto, parrot, is the friendly and homely bird reputed for telling the truth as it is. In Yoruba, it means “the world resents the truth”. The late Victor Olabisi Onabanjo wrote his Aiyekooto column for the Daily Service and the Daily Express, now both defunct, between 1954 and 1962; and for the Nigerian Tribune between 1987 and 1989. His columns, in which no subject is spared, exhibit profound candour, concern, wit, incisiveness and forthrightness. And they are characteristically readable and provocative. Importantly, Aiyekooto is undiminished and it is a body of work addressed to many generations – past, present and future.