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I never asked him, but remained convinced that Kunle sometines came nto my office so carly in the morning because he was coming straight rom an all night session with his Samizdat colleagues’
– Wole Soyinka
The book recapitulates, in the best tradition of literary journalism, the experiences of incarceration and resistance during General Sani Abacha’s years. On the carpet throughout is the military as an institution, careering from one self-immolating escapade to another and dragging the country down with it along murky alleys of deprivation, torture and murder
– Odia Ofeimun
The narrative carries one along compellingly. Kunle Ajibade has found just about the right combination of the subjective and the objective: he gives vent to his own memories, feelings and judgements while letting the facts, events, realities speak for themselves’
– Biodun Jeyifo
The idea of guerrilla journalism is an innovation that is beautifully described, and would be of use to other groups fighting oppression anywhere’
-Patrick Wilmot
‘It reads wonderfully. I have no doubt that it is going to be a landmark in our country’s narrations of survival’
– Kole Omotoso
And, of course, there’s the great irony of the author being locked up, but having all this information, and now revealing it – Judy Molland “In jailinga journalist the government of Abacha unwittingly helped in sponsoring a book which plainly indicts it’
– Toyin Akiueshe
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