Emeritus Professor Eno Lazarus Inanga

I had just seen a "classic" Citreon rising from the dust as I trudged on my way to a gig and recalled a Professor at the University of Ibadan who had the same exact sort of car. I remembered him from his tennis playing and, I seemed to remember his wife was a world-class pianist from whom I learned--by spying when she wadn't looking--the warm chords she played when teaching us songs of victory: "We Want To Sing". I remember her name, Mrs Inanga, and did a search and found, to my surprise, that Professor Lazarus had left us--probably to rise, in the world to come, in the same way his amusing yet effective tennis serve gave notice to unwitting opponents. I remember Professor Inanga well. Given the prescience of his name, to suggest that he rests is to not believe in the resurrection of the saints. Till again we meet, comrade...