Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has paid tribute to the late actor, translator and teacher, Adebayo Faleti.
In the three paragraph tribute sent this evening to MoneyIssues, Soyinka described the late Faleti as a still water that runs deep. Below is the tribute:
“So soon after Abiola Irele, another pillar of the Shrine of Letters succumbs to the exigences of Time and leaves our horizon cloudy.
Adebayo Faleti was a pioneer in virtually every genre of literary creativity, and its expansion. No one should have been surprised to watch him lift the level of acting in the flush of Nigerian films, with his studied, subtle character portrayals.
Yoruba scholarship owes him much, and will honour him befittingly. More importantly is that he leaves for us memories of his unassuming presence which so richly embodied the expression: “Still waters run deep.”
Late Faleti died in the early hours of Sunday at his home in Ibadan, Oyo State.
