“They were coming out now. The rats were the first as usual, led by General. He had named him General because he was the biggest and boldest of the rats...
Author - Ike Okonta
Ike Okonta was a founding member of The News and Tempo, two newsmagazines that hounded (and were in turn persecuted by) the Military in Nigeria until they scurried shamefacedly out of power. Okonta, a much published activist (human and environmental) is currently at Oxford doing a study of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Struggle. Okonta is a journalist of vast talents and experience and his highly crafted pieces always make exciting reading. A teller of stories, he won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prose Prize in 1998.
My nightmare returned. Before this, there was an older nightmare, going back to when I was little but which time, mercifully, has now dissolved into benign...
