Ifeanyi Odoh is feverish when I walk into his office. His voice, like stepping on broken glass, keeps drifting in and out of consciousness, a minute-by-minute lesson in insidiousness. Yet he doesn’t want to stop. “You are here already,” he says, “Let’s talk.”
Talk we do. About his morning walks. His father. His life story is well-trodden. Born in Nigeria, he went to France’s top engineering school, École Polytechnique on a scholarship—his family was not wealthy. He gloats over his wife, how he chased her all over the world — or so she says, he says.
