Excerpt 14: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers
An old hand who had anticipated many coups and nipped them in the bud before they got off the ground, was first to spot brewing trouble.
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marks) President Bibo Dibonso was a force d
to reckon with. Forty years of supremacy had turned power into a habit then
into a toy, and Dibonso himself into a permanent bully. On that day, a new
anger was troubling him. Its cause, also new, had come only that morning. He
had slept like a log the night before and, like a log, woken up stiff. This was
not new. He woke up stiff like a log often these days. So, that morning, he
decided to loosen up, for all it was worth, by standing up then bending down
and straightening up again, once. The cause of his new anger arose from that
little workout. In a first sign of loss of self-control, something warm
trickled down between his legs. This had never happened
before; it was new. A bolt on some valve inside him had gone loose, basically owing
to old age. Old age has uncanny ways of loosening bolts even on valves best
left alone. He showered, o…
