Learning the hard way: The excitement and regret of experiencing war as a child.

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and I admired them because they always have stories to tell, and people to tell their stories. I remember spending a whole day listening to my grandfather, who was one of the few survivors of a war that raided our village, tell his war experiences to several visitors who came to pay him courtesy visits and he never repeated a story and never ran out of stories to tell. I did not like missing any of his story-telling sessions, so if I was sent on errands during any of these sessions, I executed it with great speed and accuracy.
As the years went by, my interest in war grew. I continuously showed my interest in war by playing several war related games. Back home in Nigeria, my neighbourhood friends and I always organized a traditional fight game we called, “egelege”, the purpose of the game was to wrestle with your opponent until you could bring him to the ground with his back first; we also fought mock-wars between ourselves using paw-paw sticks to frame our guns and shoot ...

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then it will continue until ‘the killing of the first-borns’ being the final to liberate the Niger Delta region.” I can never forget the joy that I felt when I read his statement on the newspaper publication, for I knew that either I was getting closer to the war or it was coming closer to me.
On the 20th of June, 2000, the militants declared war; attacking several military facilities, vandalizing oil pipelines, and kidnapping foreign expatriates. The federal government took counteractive measures by deploying battalions of soldiers to the region to reinforce the ones already in the area, in order to control the situation since the problem at hand was beyond the control of the ...

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