By Obi Nwakanma
At the Government College Umuahia, he was Captain of the Library. It was as cushy a job as captaincies go, but it was also the mark of achievement in a place where these appointments were considered preps for holding future leadership positions. Umuahia was a classic English-style public school, highly selective and very full of itself; where boys boarded after a highly competitive, and highly mediated process.
It was also something of a boot-camp, with its very Spartan ethos, which equipped one with three fundamental attitudes: a pursuit of the highest notion of excellence, a high sense of discipline and duty that demanded loyalty, integrity, and fidelity to rules (inscribed in that code of conduct: “obey before complaint,” which personally riled me very much, and from which I constantly rebelled because I thought it was a ridiculous rule best…
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