The Voice of Reason is a collection of columns written over the years by one of Nigeria’s renowned journalists Kola Animasaun. The doyen of Nigerian journalism Alade Odunewu (Allah-de) gives the best testimony to the genius of Animasaun when he says: “I read Kola Animasaun every week. His column does what a good column should do – take on all manner of people as well as all manner of subjects, from the sublime to the ridiculous. As I myself attempted to do decades ago, the column is about men and matters; it is history; it is about politicians, morality; about religion, government and the governed, about the endless struggle between the powerful and the weak; about man’s inhumanity to man; about class divide; about those strange elements you can find in George Orwell’s 1984 – the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Information, who specialises in ignorance and voodooism; about Big Brother watching over your shoulder; about the agency established to provide electricity, but which specialises in throwing the nation into utter darkness; about epileptic telephone.”