When destiny brought him to Ede, then in old Oyo State, little did he realise he had come to cultivate and seal a most enduring bond with fate encompassing the totality of his life through family and career. Young David had a most inviting sartorial taste that students found awesome. His slim-fit shirts always sat on his pretty frame with utmost convenience.
David ensured his matching shirt and trousers combined well with his stiletto shoes of the era. His marches from one edge of the blackboard to the other radiated authority filled with fashion. To what else would you appropriate your attention when you had a captain in front of you with the capacity to fly you around the world in 40 minutes? How? Unmistakably urbane and feminine voice bearing David Oladeji came to Ede Muslim Grammar School to teach Geography.
He taught me Human Geography. You must come to his class with your manually drawn world map each time his class held. And then the tour would begin.
Oladeji rammed all the geographically important regions of the world into our local heads from the Ruhr region in in the then USSR to the Appalachains and the Prairies of North America. Our darling Oladeji’s Prairies was to echo to me and a former schoolmate, Dr S O Ibraheem, who later became and retired recently as an investment banker in the US. It was during my first visit to that country in 1998.
Dr Ibraheem was at that time an academic on the staff of Penn State University. He had obtained a first class degree from.