From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples.

A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct.

But this is not unconnected with the fact that the electoral system in Nigeria is still skewed in favour of wifeism.