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Author: A. D. E. OSIJO Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 77
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Prior to the time late Gen. Sani Abacha seized power by overthrowing the regime of Ernest Shonekan, Abacha was an officer whose name was synonymous with the game of upstaging both military and democratically elected regimes in Nigeria. He was fearless and bold, as a military officer. His brief regime gave rise to so many uprisings and unrest, in the quest of the politicians and the Nigerian masses to reclaim the mandate of the democratically elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the person of late M.K.O Abiola, who was the presidential flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party. The regime of Abacha and his erstwhile deputy, Lt.Gen. Oladipo Diya, was characterized by political assassinations and imprisonment of the opposition.
Author: A. D. E. OSIJO Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 77
Book Description
Prior to the time late Gen. Sani Abacha seized power by overthrowing the regime of Ernest Shonekan, Abacha was an officer whose name was synonymous with the game of upstaging both military and democratically elected regimes in Nigeria. He was fearless and bold, as a military officer. His brief regime gave rise to so many uprisings and unrest, in the quest of the politicians and the Nigerian masses to reclaim the mandate of the democratically elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the person of late M.K.O Abiola, who was the presidential flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party. The regime of Abacha and his erstwhile deputy, Lt.Gen. Oladipo Diya, was characterized by political assassinations and imprisonment of the opposition.
Author: Peter Cunliffe-Jones Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0230112609 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.
Author: Wole Soyinka Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0375755144 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 530
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The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered homeland. In the tough, humane, and lyrical language that has typified his plays and novels, Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of Nigeria itself by bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him, and by describing the pioneering theater works that defied censure and tradition. Soyinka not only recounts his exile and the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, but shares vivid memories and playful anecdotes–including his improbable friendship with a prominent Nigerian businessman and the time he smuggled a frozen wildcat into America so that his students could experience a proper Nigerian barbecue. More than a major figure in the world of literature, Wole Soyinka is a courageous voice for human rights, democracy, and freedom. You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of his thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land.
Author: Karl Maier Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0786730617 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 432
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To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a nation into which billions of dollars of oil money flow, its per capita income has fallen dramatically in the past two decades. Military coup follows military coup. A bellwether for Africa, it is a country of rising ethnic tensions and falling standards of living, very possibly on the verge of utter collapse -- a collapse that could dramatically overshadow even the massacres in Rwanda. A brilliant piece of reportage and travel writing, This House Has Fallenlooks into the Nigerian abyss and comes away with insight, profound conclusions, and even some hope. Updated with a new preface by the author.
Author: Wole Soyinka Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578063383 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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Within these interviews, Soyinka is forthright, clear and eloquent. He addresses many facets of his writing and plumbs pressing issues of culture, society and community.
Author: 'Kunle Amuwo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The autocratic regime of Sani Abacha (1993-1998) stands out as a watershed in the history of independent Nigeria. Nigeria's darkest years since the civil war resulted from his unrestrained personal rule; very close to the features associated with warlordism. Nepotism, corruption, violation of human rights, procrastination over the implementation of a democratic transition, and the exploitation of ethnic, cultural or religious identities, also resulted in the accumulation of harshly repressed frustrations. In this book, some distinguished scholars, journalists and civil society activists examine this process of democratic recession, and its institutional, sociological, federal and international ramifications. Most of the contributions were originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux.
Author: Max Siollun Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 087586709X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.
Author: A. D. E. OSIJO
Author: A. D. E. OSIJO
Author: Max Siollun
Author: Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Author: Wole Soyinka
Author: Olusegun Adeniyi
Author: Ebenezer Babatope
Author: Karl Maier
Author: Wole Soyinka
Author: 'Kunle Amuwo
Author: Max Siollun