We know that visiting a military dictator to seek pardon for a coup plotter is no small feat. Soyinka says the visit was your idea. Where did you get the courage?
The elders welcomed me as if Moses himself had descended from the mountain as in the holy books, except, instead of tablets of stone, I carried a battered laptop tucked under my arm.
A mediocre performance by one white classmate could not reasonably have embarrassed an entire civilisation. Black people should be liberated from that burden, too.
