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THE WAGES OF OBSESSIVE MATERIALISM here presented, is the text of the NAL Convocation Lecture which Professor Ayo Banjo delivered in 2007. Professor Ayo Banjo, FNAL, is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Banjo is also a Past President of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL).

This volume of the Annals of the Academy comprises a selection of the papers presented at sessions of the convocations of the Academy in 2009 and 2010. As usual the Academy at the two convocations focused on issucs that are critical to the development of the state and society in Nigeria in particular; and in Africa in general. The 2009 convocation addressed the theme of Religion and Morality in Nigeria. In 2010 the Academy shifted its attention to assessing Fifty Years of Humanistic studies in Nigeria. As out' president remarked in his address (201 0) we believe in the vital roles of the...

The theme of our tenth convocation was The Humanities and Good Governance. Professor B. Olatunji Oloruntimehin presented the Convocation Lecture on Man in Society as Template of Good Governance. Professor Moses Akin Makinde's The Humanities and Good Governance: A Philosophical Appraisal and Professor Jide Osuntokun's paper on The Judiciary and the sustenance of Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria, 1999-2008 were presented at the Scientific Session of the Convocation. The three contributions in this volume are, from their varied perspectives, concerned with demonstrating the importance of...