By Yinka Olatunbosun
Ifeanyi Amadi, a UAE-based Nigerian writer recently hosted journalists in Lagos to mid-day conversations around his two books titled “Tourist in Wahala Land” and “The Chemical Poems of Ayatollah Khameni.” The graduate of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) left the Nigerian shores five years ago in pursuit of his dreams as a biomedical technologist. But when he is not in a laboratory mixing chemicals, he is probably preparing reagents for socio-political discourse through his writings.
As a former student union member at UNIPORT, he had been disillusioned by the ineffectuality that often trails the fight against corruption and human rights abuses in his home country. In his frustration, he was prepared even for violent revolution against the corrupt leaders. With the hunger for positive change, he started to map out a strategy for activism. But when much didn’t change during the time of President Musa Yaradua, he had a serious rethink.
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