Death is inevitable. It is a natural phenomenon which comes without notice. Like the rising and setting of the Sun, death is a certainty for all of us one day. But any time death comes knocking, especially when it snatches a loved one, it is as if it never happened before. The shock can only be imagined. And so it happened that we were confronted with the shocking news of the departure to the great beyond of Professor Jean Frances Herskovits Corry on February 5, 2019. Her demise was one of the greatest loss to Nigeria in particular and humanity in general.
She loved Nigeria so much that in the last half century there was virtually no important personality or issue that she was not aware of or had direct relationship with. This was why her beloved husband, Mr. John Corry, always jokes that “when I married Jean, I married Nigeria”. In fact, our former External Affairs minister, late General Joseph Garba, who later became President of the UN General Assembly once described Prof…
