Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- The coup of January 15 1966 is older than me by a good ten and a half years. But very few events in Nigeria's history have enthralled me like that drama. For over two decades and counting, I have made the study of the coup, the circumstances that led to it, and its aftermath an obsession. Once I catch a whiff of the latest article on Exercise Damisa, I am after it like a starving dog sighting meat. A book, a report, a picture, I am off like a high-velocity bullet. At times, I get this weird feeling that Chukwuma Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, and Adewale Ademoyega were my homeboys in my neighbourhood. Outside articles, I have tried my hand on fiction based on some of the dramatis personae of the coup. One of such short f...