How to Drink from a Poisoned Cup: Harold Smith story and the Nigerian story, by Azu Ishiekwene On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in Nigeria. And that’s probably to be expected for a man whom the British establishment ostracised for decades for daring to be different, before his death. He was everything the British colonial authorities didn’t want him to be, and he paid for it. But for his book, The Harold Smith Story, published by Lawless Publications four years...