Òyì nke e mepụtara

They called him a bandit. [PAUSE] But history remembers him as a lion. For twenty years, one man held an empire at bay. His name was Omar Mukhtar. [PAUSE] A schoolteacher who became a legend. This is the story of how a 70-year-old man brought the Italian army to its knees, and why the world tried to forget him.