Appreciation
The authors are indebted to several hundred people who sacrificed their time to make invaluable contributions to this book. We are especially grateful to those whose interviews proved exceedingly illuminating. It is not possible to mention all of them by name, indeed many prefer to remain anonymous, but we thank them most profusely. Our sincere gratitude also goes to a wonderful lady, Funlola Olojede for spending long hours, often far into the night, to assist us in this project. We are grateful to Tony Okhamera for providing an atmosphere conducive to creative work; to Nyaknno Osso, the Newswatch librarian — the best in the business — for his immense assistance in sorting through a huge stockpile of research materials; Nosa Igiebor, May Ellen Ezekiel and Austen Omamegbe, for their encouragement and support. Finally, we appreciate the co-operation and encouragement we received from our publishers, Spectrum Books, in particular .loop Berkhout, Gbenro Adegbola and Bankole Olayebi, for tolerating our temperament.
Thank you. Thank you.
DELE and ONUKABA
