Esposide1......i was born in birnin-biko, a village about thirty miles from the northern border of the presentday nigeria the year was 1865. My father gatama boko was of mixed blood: his own father was a fulani and his mother a hausa. He was tall min of very slender build. Hehad a small face and a long tin nose. The nostrils where so small that one wondared how air could pass easily through them. Everything about hin was was small. Even his teeth were small--white and beautifully arrange
