Diplomatic Baggage: Mossad & Nigeria: The Dikko Story

In Diplomatic Baggage, globally renowned London-based journalist and author, Kayode Soyinka, tells the story of Umaru Dikko's sensational kidnap attempt in London on July 5, 1984, which in part reads like a Le Carre thriller, with the involvement of at least two international secret services. It is also the sober but intriguing account of Dikko's legal battles of asylum in the United Kingdom, a shrewd analysis of Nigerian politics, exclusive interviews with Dikko himself, and, like all good stories, has a bizarre denouement. Nobel Laureate, President Nelson Mandela with a copy of the First Edition of Diplomatic Baggage, presented to him by the Author Kayode Soyinka (next beside him). He confirmed that they heard about and followed the sensational kidnapping of Umaru Dikko while he and his colleagues were on the Robben Island Prison in South Africa. Read more