News at Eleven: "Ah yes," exclaims [Gen Yakuba] Gowon.

"You were my house guest."

[Wole] Soyinka tells him of the solitary confinement, the hardship, and Gowon seems genuinely surprised. "I had no idea," he says.

Soyinka breaks the sombre mood with a flash of humour: "Let me tell you publicly, if the boot had been on the other foot, I would have slung your arse in jail much earlier."

from BBC News: Watching Wole's return to Biafra

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