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A Fatherless People: The Secret Story Of How The Nigerians Missed The Road to The Promise Land

Author: Dele Ogun
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A FATHERLESS PEOPLE THE SECRET STORY OF HOW THE NIGERIANS MISSED THE ROAD TO THE PROMISED LAND

Nigeria is a country of which much is heard and about which little is understood. The product of an ambitious amalgamation, in 1914, of three hundred and seventy-one ethnic groups in the area of the River Niger, with as many languages, to form the most populous state in British-Africa (estimated at 170 million people).

Its unsettled history since grant of independence, in 1960, has seen millions killed in the Biafran War, the rise of militants in the oil-producing Niger-Delta region, the emergence of Boko Haram Islamic separatists in the north-east of the country and the return of agitation for Biafran secession by a new generation of lgbos in the south-east.

The book seeks to make sense of the events in this country of many paradoxes: A land of extreme poverty alongside stupendous waelth:a country where, in the north Islamists proclaim Western education to be sin even while, elsewhere in the country, world-class writers, like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, are produced; a state which democrats and dictators have taken turns to rule with little to set them apart in terms of the progress and development of the country.

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