Yinka Odumakin and the unfinished work of nation-building On Dr G. Boladei Igali In William Shakespeare’s classic Julius Caesar, the chief protagonist, a Roman statesman and general boasted deafeningly to his wife Calpurnia and by extension to Cassius and Pompey, the other power brokers with whom he formed a triumvirate that “Of all the wonders that I have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”. So does society view the rather dreary phenomenon called death? But whenever it occurs, either for the youngest or oldest, all express a great “aww”, instinctively.