The author is best known as a novelist. An engineer by training, serving as Permanent Secretary in the Western Region civil service, and retired Associate Professor of Public Health Engineering at the University of Lagos, he has previously written The Story of my Life. This new volume expands on his childhood, and writes his professional story from the viewpoint of a public servant who lived through eighteen years under British engineers, and the second half of his career as a co-formulator of policies with other Nigerians. The story spans childhood, university education from 1993, public service from 1943, further study and work in London, and public service, academic posts, and private sector consultancy up to 1988. T.M. Aluko is a novelist, and his post before retired was as Associate Professor of Public Health Engineering at the University of Lagos.