Editors Note: When I started to edit this manuscript I thought it was going to be just a quaint story about a boy growing up in Nigeria. Was I wrong This story takes you inside the mind of the main character and all of the many struggles that he had. Struggles of just living to eat another day. Struggles of trying to get an education that might matter. And finally struggles that led him into Nigerian political and military world that landed him and others into the midst of terrorist hotbeds and attacks. This is not about the past, this is about what is happening right here and right now ...