(A Revised Edition of an Award-Winning Book) This book is about how a village boy who became fatherless at the age of five, transited from rural Nigeria into the modern world and into academia. His life journey has taken him through varied experiences in time and space, affording him the opportunity to interact with peoples of different nationalities and faiths. Told in his own words with candour and humour, and with no affection, he paints a vivid picture of his life and times. Marveling at how he survived childhood, thrived and succeeded in life, he concludes that the caring “hands” of God must have upheld him.