Parallax Snaps; Contents

Contents

       i. Foreword
       ii. Introduction

1. Golden Fleece? – I think I got it!
2. First Day Back Home
3. The problem of living by the pen
4. The Peter Pan Story: Prologue
5. The Peter Pan Story: Fate
6. The Peter Pan Story: Epilogue
7. Angus Okoli: Facing Dangers
8. Chris Okolie and His New Times
9. Shades of Black  
10. Colin and Marie: Two of a kind
11. How Western Media Cover Africa
12. Row Over BP
13. ‘Nobody Likes the Journalist’
14. Like Going To War
15. Reporting Politics: ‘Analysis of Strategy
16. President-Elect and the Media
17. Covering the Transition
18. The press and the Second Republic
19. Selling Nigeria Abroad
20. ‘Editorial’ Mr. Wayas Didn’t Read
21. Freedom From Self – Censorship
22. Coming to the Times
23. Beatific Calabar
24. Land and Conscience
25. Epistle on Awo’s Land
26. Oil Without Gate
27. Censorship Via Press Briefing
28. Private Life In Public
29. Face to Face With Asaju
30. Lade Bonuola: Mr. Caught Out
31. Smoking Uba Ahmed
32. The President Meets the Press
33. No Apologies, Please
34. Reflections: ‘I Have Found Myself’
35. The Ritual Called Press Briefing
36. Recklessness of Dr. See Ess Momoh
37. We are Servants To Our ‘Masters’
38. Concord, The Man Child
39. Corridors of Power
40. Classical Hoax
41. Mr. Oyebola’s Blah And Other Blahs
42. Oyebola Replies Dele Giwa
43. The Business of News
44. Shagari, Up, Up Close
45. Shagari, Up, Up Close (II)
46. Shagari, Up, Up Close (III)
47. Press Censorship in Nigeria
48. The Turning Point, The New Journalist
49. ‘Your Hands Up, And Get Out’
50. Mum, Politics and Shagari
51. Tony Momoh’s Triumph
52. Gani Fawehinmi Writes Parallax Snaps
53. ‘Jesus … the President Is Angry
54. S.M. Afolabi, Gone With the Winds
55. Peculiar Nigerians Called Journalists
56. Crusaders, Editors, Oink Slips
57. When the Police Came Ringing the Bell
58. Akporugo’s Diabolical Sense of Humour
59. ‘Andy Akporugo Is a Guru’
60. Wednesday at the State House
61. Harassment As High Art
62.  Life Without Shoes
63. A Man Almost Died
64. Akinjide and the Question of Principle
65. When Charles Igoh Came for Lunch
66. Watching the Presidency
67. Hazards of Writing a Column
68. ‘Don’t Get Killed’
69. Of Faith (Not) Broken
70. Garbage Cans of Innuendoes
71. Pen and Bullets Cross Swords
72. I Was A Mad Young Man
73. Just A Chat
74. Hard Days Are Here
75. Moral Force of Truth
76. The New Machine
77. Another Side of DN 4
78. Complaining Usefully
79. Summer of Silence
80. Uses of Power
81. Not Afghanistanism
82. The Style and the Message
83. God’s Experiment
84. Death and Destiny
85. Man Without Cant – by Ray Ekpu
86. Death of a Typewriter – by Eddie Iroh
87. Reminiscences on Dele Giwa – by Olatunji Dare
88. Asking Questions – by Amma Ogan
89. A Son Remembers – by Billy Giwa
    

    Parallax Snaps; Appendix –

    i. Dele Giwa: Annotated Biobibliography (Section One – As Features Editor, Daily Times)
    ii. Dele Giwa: Annotated Biobibliography (Section Two – As Editor Sunday Concord)
    iii. Dele Giwa: Annotated Biobibliography (Section Three – As Editor-in-Chief, Newswatch)
    iv. Books And Magazine Cover Stories On Dele Giwa

    Parallax Snaps; Appendix 2-

    Index