Still in the Shadow of Death
Echeta, Chikodi
The book is an interesting, easy-read, true story about the writer, starting in 1966 when the pogrom that precipitated the Nigerian civil war began, up to the end of 2011 when Boko Haram handed a Christmas present of bombs to churches in three northern Nigerian states. It gives a simple, very compelling narrative of the child's war time experiences - personal loss, dreadful air raids, the emotive period of his older brother's conscription into...