Dr. Emmanuel Udezue is a writer and semi-retired Consultant Physician in the UK National Health Service. He studied medicine at Ibadan, Nigeria, did postgraduate studies in the UK and has qualifications and certifications from Nigeria, UK, Ireland and the USA. Studying, working and living in different continents has given him unique perspectives on the importance of one’s origins in moulding and shaping a person’s world view of things. His political awareness started in the 1960s when in a high school Civics class, he was incensed by the White Australian Immigration Policy (Immigration Restriction Act of 1901) and confronted an Australian teacher about it. It continued in Ibadan where he was Assistant Secretary of the Students’ Union and Speaker of its parliament.   He contributed articles to the school magazine in high school and wrote for newspapers at university where he also edited the medical students’ journal. While pursuing postgraduate studies in the UK, he wrote a weekly medical column in the local newspaper Luton Herald as well as in two doctors’ weekly newspapers, Doctor and Hospital Doctor. In addition to academic publications in peer-reviewed journals, his writings have also appeared in Arabian Sun, Outlook, Dorset Magazine, the British Medical Journal, the defunct World Medicine and The Writer, the journal of the Society of Medical Writers.   He has won awards at the prestigious annual Winchester Writers Conference. His other book, Blessed of God (ISBN 978-178035-944-1, available on Amazon), was about his missionary parents’ work in various parts of Eastern Nigeria.   The present book seeks to appreciate some of the heroes of his people, the Igbos, who are one of the three main ethnic groups in Nigeria. It is hoped that their stories will inspire the present generation of Igbo people, especially the youth.