​​I must admit that the selection process of who to request to write the foreword baffles me, nonetheless, I am used to those old tricks of Google internet surfing to source a man of intellectual humility and none abrasive intellectual integrity. Be that as it may, I see in the writings of Adeola (if she allows me this familiarity) a colleague in the world of literature – fine literature.

In as much as I know that all writers want to be read, writers must endeavour to write readable books not in highfaluting language and expressions that hide their insufficiencies, but in a simple language. Adeola’s work is not in that genre. She writes in simple and accessible English seasoned, occasionally, by the use of Pidgin (broken English), and even in her native language; Yoruba.

I congratulate our incisive and thoroughbred poet for her multiculturalist approach to poetry writing. Our children are no longer reading good literature, most of the time; they are glued to their atrocious, insalubrious, pornography on the internet. Adeola has done a good job by redirecting our children to know their environment and their culture.

Beautiful Minds conjures up memory of my four year stint at the prestigious University of Paris, (Sorbonne), 1975-1979 and my book of poetry titled The Diaspora. Diaspora, taken globally, is no longer the Festac 77 notion of black and African peoples.

Diaspora is the aggregate humankind, citizens of the world, where summer, winter, spring, autumn, snow, Christmas, Harmattan and other forces of nature are felt by all and sundry. In this score, Beautiful Minds joins the rank of world literature, where the déboire, debacle of humankind are daily enacted in the full glare of our television cameras, be it on CNN, BBC, TVI, TVS, Aljazeera etc.

In a twinkling of the eye, news of disasters, calamities, wars, floods and deadly winter snow are brought to our living room. Thus, in Beautiful Minds, Open Heavens, Wahala, Love, Pressure, Hope, Broken Dreams, God, Peace, Marriage, England, Spain (In Costa Blanca), Lagos and The Four Seasons are depicted with clinical finish by Adeola.

Our children, Nigerian as well as European children are thus introduced by Adeola’s book of poetry to the realism of this world, where our Christian faith and belief in Jesus Christ does not shield us from disastrous attacks by the agents of the devil, but our defence is from our little angels, guardian angels, sent by God to rescue us from all our foes.

I therefore recommend Beautiful Minds to men and women of goodwill, desirous to leave the world a better place than they met it.

Samuel Olajide Timothy Asobele
Professor & Head of European Languages UNILAG.​​