My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence

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His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights within the oil-wealthy 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 within the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his circle of relatives had a hand in shaping.Part circle of relatives memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing have a 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 have a look at the complicated country lately, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the powerful African nations; from life in Lagos’s virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the a large number of tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, it is a timely and personal have a look at an interesting country that has yet to reach its great potential.
His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights within the oil-wealthy 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 within the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his circle of relatives had a hand in shaping.Part circle of relatives memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing have a 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 have a look at the complicated country lately, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the powerful African nations; from life in Lagos’s virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the a large number of tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, it is a timely and personal have a look at an interesting country that has yet to reach its great potential.

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