Description

Tough Man shows the author's ability to promote ethical and patriotic goals through careful plotting and characterization. The setting of each of the nine 'Happenings' are graphically drawn and they remain in the reader's/audience's memory long after the last page has been read or long after the final blackout in the theatre. Idegu does not disguise the consistency aimed at in Tough Man- the contemporary Igalaman of probity and integrity, the Nigerian, the African, the world citizen. By being intensely local in its superficial frame, Idegu's Tough Man reaches out towards universal desiderata of honesty, responsible leadership and a warm humanity. I very strongly recommend Idegu's Tough Man not only to the Nigerian reader/audience, but to readers and audiences in all places where essential human values and uprightness of governance and conduct have primacy of place. Professor Dapo Adelugba