One of the enduring tropes of human comeback and survival is
associated with Fyodor Dostoevsky who gained reprieve from execution at the
last minute.
Yet, the glistering
success of the Russian writer in his post-near-death epoch would not have
effectively obviated the ordeal of the pall of an imminent death that hung over
him before his sudden freedom.
But quite unlike
Dostoevsky, that tragic hiatus was not short-lived in the case of a Nigerian
citizen Clinton Kanu. In 1992, at the age of 29 when he brimmed with the hope of conquering the
world, Kanu was sentenced to death for murder. Kanu’s ordeal began
when his in-laws were accused of stealing a generator and fluorescent tubes.
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| *Clinton Kanu |
