By Willie Amadi
I spoke to Prof a few weeks after he lost his house and library to the arson that kept him miserable till he passed away. During my conversations with him I condoled with him on the sad incident but with emphasis on his library and literary works. I simply reminded him of the book by Prof. Wole Soyinka, “The Man Died” and admonished him not to die too. He said “Willie my good friend. Am I still living with my life burnt and I replied yes because those knowledge are still in your brain, whole being and also in the public space and the internet. He replied “Good man but I can’t touch or see the knowledge again” I told him that if he has a spiritual eye he will see them and he laughed and finally said “All these acquisitions and struggles are really vanity but that it was good he enjoyed the vanity before it became vanity“ We laughed and I said Prof idi very correct and he replied “Good man. Thank you for inspiring me and I will not let you down “
But Prof, you let me down. You let Ohaneze down. You let your beloved brother, Hope Uzodinma your great ally down. You let the academia down. You let the Diplomatic world down. You let IMO people down and finally dealt a devastating blow to your encyclopaedia and uterine brother UCHE down !
