It is in the foregoing context that Chief Oduola Wole Fawole’s invaluable autobiography, Today’s Timely Issue is Tomorrow’s History, released last October on the occasion of his 70th birthday, can be appreciated. The one-sentence title, didactic as it is, immediately annunciates the crux of the Otun-Tobalase of Ife’s offering. He wants to chronicle the trajectories of his seven decades of existence; but it is not going to be bland and without wisdom, grace, and the meatiness of an account which compellingly engages the mind and enriches it