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Title: The Open Grave: Nadeco and the Struggle for Democracy Author: Olawale Oshun Publisher: Josel Publisher, London Pages: 296 Price: £15.00 (Hardback)
The Open Grave is the story of Nigeria ’s foremost pro-democracy movement NADECO, the individuals and associations which made up the movement, its operations and its myth. For almost five years (1994-1999), NADECO was the invisible hand behind almost every political development in Nigeria . The movement’s voice rang loudly and clearly in Nigeria and in hallowed diplomatic chambers across the world. For Nigeria ’s dictator General Sani Abacha, the fear of NADECO was the beginning of wisdom. In this book, the author Olawale Oshun, explores the narrow mindedness of Nigeria’s moneyed class, the international intrigues that helped sustain the military dictatorship, and with due appreciation, the courage and commitment of unsung Nigerians who at the risk of their lives gave NADECO its aura. It is Olawale’s second political book and a continuation of the thesis of his first: Clapping With One Hand: June 12 and the crisis of a State Nation
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Title: Who’s Who in Nigeria (2nd Edition) Editor: Bankole Makinde Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited Pages: 1,388 Price: £32.00
Newswatch Who’s Who in Nigeria (2nd Edition) is an update of the maiden edition which was published in 1990. It is a standard reference on Nigerians of outstanding accomplishment; the movers and shakers in Nigeria, captains of industry and commerce, titans of the academia, renowned administrators, great scientists, prominent statesmen, famous writers and journalists, barons of the bar and bench, military big-wigs, governors, ministers, commissioners and other leading personalities of the day.
Unlike the first edition which contained 2,200 entries and was 803 pages long, the 2nd edition is much bigger, containing more than 4,000 entries and is 1, 388 pages. It is also the most up to date bibliographical encyclopedia on and about Nigerians of merit.
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Title: Adebayo Adedeji: A Rainbow in the Sky of Time Author: Sanmi-Ajiki Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited, Lagos, Nigeria Pages: 454 Price: £15.00
Professor Adebayo Adedeji was one of Africa's foremost public servants. As the boss of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and an under-secretary at the United Nations for many years, he left an indelible mark on the work and objectives of the ECA.. Such was his influence and contribution that The Guardian (of London and Manchester) described him as "the man who has given himself a special licence to say the things about Africa, which no one wants to hear." This authorised biography, A Rainbow in the Sky of Time, takes a critical look at his life and times, vision and mission. It is an authoritative book on a man of many parts.
Title: The Link With The Past Author: Alfred Rewane Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan, Nigeria Pages: 235 Price: £12
The late Alfred Rewane was an icon of Nigeria's pro-democracy movement during the dark days of the later dictator General Sani Abacha. His murder on October 6, 1995 in suspicious circumstance provoked national and international outcry. His book, The Link With the Past, put together posthumously and released in late 2000, is a collection of his forthright views on the burning socio-political and economic issues in Nigeria. It is an insight into what made Rewane an outstanding defender of democracy and the rule of law.
Two kinds of literature have emerged in Nigeria over the last decade or so—accounts by military men justifying coup making or the civil war and the largely boring ululations and lullabies of sycophants in the name of biographers. Fellow Nigerians addresses the curious connection between the profiles of Nigeria’s past leaders and their subsequent roles in retirement. The author gives us, largely unedited, a fascinating repertoire of the foibles, the recklessness, tardiness, the litter and glitter of the maiden addresses of Nigerian past heads of state.
Clapping With One Hand is an insider’s account of what is known in Nigeria as the June 12 Struggle, the epic political battle fought over the annulment of Nigeria’s presidential election of June 12, 19993. It is a story of betrayal, hatred and calculated self-interest that is bound to jar the mind of the reader. But it is also a book of the failure of the Nigerian project and how that failure continues to manifest itself in every sphere of the country’s life.
A definitive work that seeks to lay to permanent rest the controversy that has dogged the results of the parliamentary elections into the Western Nigeria Regional House of Assembly in 1951. Was there really, as claimed that some parliamentarians crossed carpet to enable Action Group form the government?
This Black Jesus follows a well-beaten track of controversial publications on the Christian religion. And it is, as far as it is known, the first to advance the thesis that Jesus was not a white man but a black man. It takes some courage to mane such an assertion but the author argues that the Caucasian race had appropriated Jesus as a white man to serve its vested racial interest.
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Style is about the house style of what has become the quintessential Nigerian news magazine that has grown to be respected as a national icon—the Newswatch magazine.
Wide-ranging in its coverage is this set of “songs” (poems), forty-two in all. Launched on the music circle’s platform, they combine subtle sense of humour with horse sense and are nimble in their assaults on man and the society through fictional character.
Diplomatic Baggage is the riveting story of the attempted kidnap of a former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko from his London home. The story, as told by the author Kayode Soyinka, a London based Nigerian journalist and publisher, reads in part like a Le Carre thriller, with the involvement of at least two secret services.
Here is a welcome companion volume to the author’s exciting Songs of an Egg-Head. This work, in light or free verse, provides more penetrating insights into life generally and into the life-styles of a contemporary society with which the author is closely identified as a scholar and citizen.
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