Right up to the hilt
Donatus Chidera Okonkwo was charged for drug trafficking, 39B. The sentence is death. I remember him because of his name, specifically, his last name – Okonkwo. That is the name of the protagonist of one of my favourite novel Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe. It was a pioneering novel. It told the African narrative from the native’s point of view instead of the Western colonialist’s. The book challenged English literature’s colonialist …