Cowries of Blood: Essays on Herdsmen, Banditry and Nigeria’s Endgame Politics

About the author.

Lasisi Olagunju, a multiple award winning newspaper columnist, was Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA) Newspaper Columnist of The Year 2017 and also winner of Nigeria’s Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) for Informed Commentary writing in 2019. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife where he bagged a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English Studies. He was at the University of Ibadan for his Masters and Ph.D respectively in Communication Arts and Political Communication.

He also holds a degree in law. He has almost three decades of journalism experience and is currently Editor, Saturday Tribune after having been Senior Features Writer/Senior reporter, News Editor, Deputy Editor, General Editor/Editorial Board member, all of the Nigerian Tribune.

He was Chief Press Secretary to Osun State Governor from June 2003 to 2008 and Special Adviser on Media to Osun State Governor from 2008 to November, 2010. Olagunju, newspaper editor, poet, author and researcher, has published a number of books including biographies. His collection of poems, Forest Flowers, was published in 2008. He writes the Monday Lines column for the Nigerian Tribune and has to his credit, over 500 informed articles written consistently every week for the past ten years.