1 A DECADE OF OBLIVION AND EMPTINESS

Africans love their heroes, yet most Ghanaians and Nigerians thought less about him now. A decade had elapsed since photos of his bullet-riddled and machete-mutilated body appeared on the pages of dailies and on the screens of TV stations all over Africa like a remotely intimate memory....And Yuletide after Christmastide, the birthdays came and went with incomplete celebrations without him.