Wole Soyinka Year Quotations

I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years.

After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.