Fela’s Ikoyi Prison Narratives: Why Prison Stories Disappear – And Why This One Survived - Thepodiummedia

Fela’s Ikoyi Prison Narratives: Why Prison Stories Disappear – And Why This One Survived - Thepodiummedia

Every authoritarian system depends on erasure. Not only of opposition, but of evidence — the small, lived details that expose how power actually operates. Prisons are central to this process. They confine bodies while dissolving memory, ensuring that what happens inside remains undocumented, disputed, or forgotten. The Ikoyi Prison Narratives survives precisely because it resists this logic. Majemite Jaboro’s book is not simply a recollection of…