'Abimbola Lagunju (born in 1960 in Ibadan) is a Nigerian writer. He studied medicine in St Petersburg, Russia from 1979 to 1987. He returned to Nigeria in the middle of the economic crisis engendered by the World Bank/IMF Structural Adjustment Program imposed on Nigeria. It was a Nigeria quite different from what he had left in 1979. The Middle Class to which he now belonged was destitute. He later wrote in The Children of Signatures (): The socio-economic melt-down of his country prompted his interest to shift from ideological idealisms to questioning the harsh political economy experiments visited on developing countries, particularly fragile sub-Saharan African countries by the Bretton Woods Institutions. The relationship between these institutions and African countries would later become a regular subject in his writings. He left Nigeria for Portugal with his family in 1993, and after a brief stint of working and studying in Lisbon, he found a job as a Development Aid worker. This experience exposed him to the arduous and seemingly unending plight of extreme poverty of rural African peoples. He has written extensively on the relationship between African leaders and their citizens. In his novel, Days of Illusions, he blames the local politicians who are directly responsible for the precarious existence of their citizens, and also the poor people for allowing themselves to be manipulated by the local politicians. In addition to numerous articles in Nigeria’s online media, his works span four literary genres: poetry, political essays, political satires and short stories. Abimbola Lagunju has authored fourteen books. Books by Abimbola Lagunju include: Cyclones of the Human Heart The Shadow of Rainbow The Children of Signatures The African in the Mirror The Days of Illusions In the Embrace of Fear Fouta Celebrates Life The Pelting March of the Storm Gaddafi’s Gaffes Verses from Under the Sands Gombii and Other Short stories When Civilization Kicked Us in the Face On the African Bus This is Not Yet My Story A Civil Society of One (Selected Published Articles) Cyclones of the Human Heart Abimbola Lagunju, drawing upon timeless African memories, has provided us with a poetry of images, a notebook of observations and a portfolio of perceptive musings. We are swept along upon a mystery tour of his imagination, stopping only to consider grand themes, simple human tableaux and personal revelations...Whether we are navigating through the macrocosm or investigating the microcosm, we find that he