Obinna lost his parents early in life, and his relations were not willing to help him. He did odd jobs to stay alive, but then he lived from hand to mouth. During the Christmas season, when people travel to the villages to celebrate the season, he discovered that those of his age mates who left the village to the cities prospered, even though in the village, you don't pay house rent, and people engaged in farming, to help themselves. There was little, or no opportunities in the village, hence many people left for the cities, where great opportunities abound . Nedu, his age mate, who ventured to Lagos, has not only built a house, but has helped in training his siblings. He only did his secondary school in Okikpo High school, before he had left. Most people who remained in the village, ended up as drunkards, and never -do -wells. Obinna decided to take the bull by the horn, by venturing out, since an Igbo proverb says, that you don't watch a masquerade from the same...