In line with his policy of Non-Silence, and practice of Positive Engagement, Osundare is a frequent and relentless contributor to media discourse in all its ramifications. From his thinly veiled satirical excoriation of military dictators to occasional open letters to Nigerian rulers, he has never shied from putting courage over cant, truth over falsehood, hope beyond despair. A Humanist internationalist with a strong commitment to Freedom and Democracy, Osundare operates with a voice and vision that are both national and international. Dialogue with My Country, a selection of essays from his Newswatch column from 1986 to 2003, provides significant and diverse instances of this boundless vision and preoccupation.

Since Nigeria’s return to civil democracy in 1999, Osundare has shown in his writings that the old monsters of social injustice and corruption have only changed their style and not their substance. In 2004, his weekly poetry column in the Sunday Tribune was re-invigorated and re-named Lifelines, and from December 2006, the new title ran under a sub-title, Random Blues, which employs the rhymed six-line format of the blues genre in its exploration of various experiences from the private to the public, the personal to the political. (The first collection from these blues was published in book form in 2011, with a hopeful possibility of the publication of subsequent volumes). In this forum as well as his other media outlets, Osundare continues his attack on corruption, electoral malpractice, impunity, social inequity, environmental degradation, and suchlike evils without forgetting to mention the potential beauty of life and the possibility of hope. Osundare has also written many open letters to public functionaries, including President Obasanjo, President Yar’Adua, and Nigeria’s Ministers of Education. For his State-of-the-Nation Lecture on Corruption, see “Why We No Longer Blush: Corruption as Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”