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Proffesor wole soyinka,the nigerian,literary nobel

lauret ,playwright,novelist ,social critic and humanist

whose carrer spans more than three decades is well
known to

be a social crusader and as such such issues like human

rights civil liberties and even freedom of expression
are

issues where you will find the learned crusader delving

into ,he wrote this book based on his experience during
the

nigerian civil war ,the books interestingly starts with
the

dialogue between him and the then millitary governor of
the

then old western region region leutenant-general
adekunle

fajuyi , a lively discussion between himself and the
late

solder ,the former wanted to know how he managed to get

into the premises of the old western regional radio co-

peration and making a pirate broadcast despite the fact

that it was heavily guarded by soldiers armed to the

teeth,and the ensueing developements in the aftermath
of

the western regional election crises ,the political

imbroglio ,the breakdown of law and order in the
wetsern

part of the country ,the millitary revolution of major

kaduna nzeogwu and his cohorts ,and ironsi,s eventualy
take

over and the present stutus quo.

Interestingly the pendulum of the book swings radicaly
as

the writer himself his suddenly been declared wanted,

things has changed a new government of reactioneries
have

taken over government in the country and the way and
manner

of their approach has suddenly brought the country to
the

brink of a civil war,adekunle fajuyi and the head of
state

general j.t.u. aguiyi ironsi were both assasinated at a

place called lalupon ,near ibadan ,the capital of the

western state,by northen elements led by the irrascible

muritala muhamed,the writer is now a wanted man ,whose

crime was chiefly his visit to the seeceding
biafra,from

his arrest at ife to his transfer from ibadan to lagos
and

kaduna while in prison where he stayed till the end of
the

civil war in 1970,his interogation at the hands of
government agents,his interaction with various categories
of the inmates,ranging from political detainies,to
prisoners of war captured on the batlefield,undisciplined
federal troops,the bravery of friends who supplied him with
infor mation about the going ons out side the walls of the
prison,and to his interaction with prison warders, but
perhaps what made the biggest

impression on him was to see the process of

centralisation ,the quota system fully in its growing

stage,but more importantly issues of human rights
abuse,and

freedom of speech were not tolerated and so for him the

tile of the book aptly describes the mood of the

book ,because the man died in him who kept quiet in the

face of oppression,the book sums up the typical african

political terrain where the sit tight syndrome of
clinging

to power has tuurned african polital leaders into
despots

ruling their people with an iron hand not even caring
at

what cost their selfish aims would impart on the
populace

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