The Alma Mater is about the ups and downs, highs and lows, trials and tribulations surrounding university education in Nigeria in the 1970s. We follow the story of a young boy, Buchi through the faculty of Medicine at the University of Nigeria Nsukka in the mid 1970 to illustrate all the blissful and stressful moments as they interweave in the course of pursuing a career in a Nigerian university in those days.