And The Man Died
(WOLE SOYINKA)
Write your abstract here. 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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