Tunde Akanni It’s my 20th year in the academia as a lecturer. And ensuing is some season of mentorship-inclined dividends: In the first week of the exact month of my anniversary, one of my former students, a whizkid sort of, sneaked a call to me: Long time sir. Hope family and work are fine? My guy later updated me on a global digital marketing and digital publishing company he has been busy building from the US. Alhamdulilah sir, we now want to strengthen our base in Nigeria, like we did in Philipines. And wed be glad to have you as our Consultant Country Director really. Just that we dont know how much youd want to bill us. Overexcited, yet taciturn, I started thanking Allah for His favours on the young man. Next, were flashes of expectations from a super-positive signal from Gods own country, as you can guess. This my former student had smartly sold the lofty credentials of yours sincerely, to his fellow directors, as one of the pioneer teachers of Online Journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa, he later told me. At our maiden online meeting, he added: Dr Akanni is also one the few journalism professors who still do regular media writing. Just do a Google search