Fairytales do come true", Frank Sinatra sang, "it could happen to you." Years ago, on a certain Sunday night, around 9.15 p.m., I was snoring away in my bed, sleeping soundly, maybe, when my father woke up: "Wole Soyinka is on NTA!" My eyes just cleared immediately. I ran out of the room and sat, beery-eyed before the TV and watched as the man in beautiful white hair read poems, with a soundtrack, no less. My father kept looking at me and he could sense the joy that engulfed me each time we talked about him, read about him or even saw him on TV. My father had saved newspaper clips of Wole Soyi...