A soap opera and Nsukka’s salute to Achebe

Mr. Umar Yar’Adua, current resident of Aso Rock, was in Germany recuperating from an illness when I arrived in Nigeria. Despite his absence, his regime’s soap opera continued its (tragic) run. In fact, as one exasperated friend, a political scientist, put it, the Yar’Adua show is not a soap opera at all but a tragedy.
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