# Quote — Helon Habila, Waiting For an Angel

> A mob wielding cudgels and cutlasses is hot on the heels of a youthwho desperately crosses to the other side of the road, narrowlymissing the fender of a truck. The mob follows growing bigger asit goes. The youth, looking over his shoulder as he runs, crashesinto a light pole and falls senseless to the ground. Before he canregain a second wind the mob is on him. I watch the cudgels riseand fall; I hear his wailing ululating screams finally turn into awhimper. They poured petrol on him and set him ablaze

- Author: [Helon Habila](https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila.md)
- Book: [Waiting For an Angel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila/waiting-for-an-angel.md)
- Page: 35
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helon_Habila#Waiting_for_an_Angel_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/helon-habila/waiting-for-an-angel/a-mob-wielding

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> More than once ourtaxi was forced to hug the kerb as siren blaring military jeepspassed at top speed...”

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> Look out there, see the long queue of cars waiting for fuel. Someof them have been there for three days...And we are a majorproducer of oil

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