A break in the Silence narrates the lifetime of one of Nigeria’s foremost nationalists who never played to the gallery for sycophants to hail but was guided by personal convictions, patriotism, and intellectualism.

The author chronicles the late Lt. Col. Banjo’s family setting; military career; involvement in the Nigeria Civil war; the terror unleashed of his family by the then ruling government; his trial by a Kangaroo tribunal and his spirited defense of himself and others; and his subsequent execution by lesser mortals than him…