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Gavin Bond
He was born in Lagos Nigeria, the son of one of the top colonial chefs at the time. With that influence,
he attended the elite government primary school in Lafiaji Lagos Island and later the Yaba C...view moreHe was born in Lagos Nigeria, the son of one of the top colonial chefs at the time. With that influence,
he attended the elite government primary school in Lafiaji Lagos Island and later the Yaba College of
Technology Secondary—Technical College, based at Yaba. He was part of the Independence intake,
the future technologists for the independent nation. He left Nigeria during the civil war to further his
education in the west, sponsored by USAID in 1966 at the onset; and hoped to return to a well governed
nation after his studies abroad. Unfortunately, it did not happen as he had visualised and found himself
marooned unwillingly in exile in the west!
He first studied as an electronics engineer and later obtained graduate and postgraduate qualifications
in politics, history, sociology and general business and manpower management studies. He was an
elected politician and was a member of the Labour Party in the UK for thirty-three years! He has six
children and four grand-children; in Denmark and in the UK. He is a very enlightened man judging by his
travels and education! He was a sportsperson and played semi-professional football in the UK for many
years. He was in the British Army, The Queens’s Regiment, that guarded Gibraltar in the seventies when
General Franco of Spain threatened to take back the Rock.
He has lived in the western hemisphere for over forty-two years and also lived and travelled the USA,
Europe, West Indies and Africa. He has met people like Angela Davis, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley and The
Wailers, Eric Clapton, Marc Bolan, Gloria Jones, etc. when he did part-time work as artist stage security
staff. There was no mobile phone at the time hence there would have been documentary photo evidence
to confirm these claims. Reading the book will convince doubters he actually met these people.
His time in politics was the most enlightening after been elected as local Councillor for eight years until
he was engineered out of the party; and they say there is democracy in the western world—Mendacity.
A story that will be told in Part II of his memoir; so look out for it! Therefore, there is more to come
from this author about what politics is all about; it is definitely not about representing the peoples; he
has walked the walk and talked the talk; been to the Caucasian Promised Land and found it all to be
just for the privileged!view less