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Publisher: St. Martin's Press (September 14, 2010)
Publication Date: September 14, 2010
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Language: English
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A short, well written history of Nigeria. A nice blend of the big picture and the author's personal relationship with the country. Well worth a read.
Very readable account. This sympathetic book, My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence is in sharp contrast in tone from the more-or-less equally revealing but ominous book on the Nigerian condition by Karl Maier a few years ago. The delivery of My Nigeria is a compassionate one from a competent literary hand. Where Maier's otherwise well-written work is judgmental in his title and theme with a uniformly tragic tone apparently deduced from the din of the hectically paced nation before him, Peter Cunliffe-Jones's My Nigeria makes a correspondingly mordant case about the country, but on balance in a sympathetic but firm and insightful way.The author, a journalist with the news agency, Agence France Presse seems to adroitly weave two strands of narrative into the supple tapestry that is the Nigeria social fabric. This he does in crisp and yet flowery cadences that make the book hard to put down. His apparent first goal seems an innately personal journey, to give something back to the country, and the continent, that lost so much from the encounter with their erstwhile colonizing masters - a pillage in which he deftly shows his forebears as foot-soldiers to different degree. The second strand in the account is the downright journalistic grunt of his sheer hard work to document, report and graphically reveal the state of the previously promising fledgling nation(reflected in his own affectionate title: My Nigeria), and to narrate the cesspool corruption and incompetence have conspired to make it today.His journalist pedigree is evident in his handle of the history of the peoples. The scope covers the timeline of the region from its ancient primitive pre-dawn of recorded history, through the coalescing of the wandering hunter-gatherers into various nation-building polities, to the advent of Europeans and the attendant rupture in the cultural fabric and the natural political evolution of the various peoples - an existential process that eventually saw the British empire presiding over the upshot, with its amalgamation of remarkably contrasting peoples into one fledgling nation-state, which it , in short order handed over to unprepared hands with no prior try of the democratic process they are to go by. As the saying goes, the rest is history: the unfolding of which Cunliffe-Jones has deployed the power of his journalistic pen on the fluid and thrilling pages of the book, showing the dynamics that shapes the intractable problems that has dogged the country from its official inception 50 years ago: tribal identity, crude oil, incompetence and corruption, and a citizenry passive to the incompetence of its leaders.Giving the account a unique perspective is no doubt the author's access to privileged information as much as the grunt of his journalist prowess in research. From the insight of the diaries of his grandfather, Hugo Marshall, who was the first lieutenant-governor of the most important region at the dawn of the country, we are treated with revealing private thoughts of this stalwart of colonial power of the time. We also glean a perspective afforded by ties to an earlier forebear, Edward Burns, an actual foot-soldier in the gun-to-the head vigilante campaign that bequeathed title and authority of African lands in the "treaties" so obtained to one of the European powers.Hence, we are treated with a graphic view of the drama of the hectic, uneasy grafting of the south and north territories of the Niger area, despite their rather markedly disparate cultures and traditions that had hitherto evolved distinctly. With not much time for subsequent nation-building before historical factors forced the hands of the British empire to fledge its new progeny to be on its own. A gripping read indeed.The realism of the prose is enlivened with numerous informal and formal interviews of ordinary folks as well as powerful ones. Particulaly riveting is how he deftly illustrates the opportunism of many ersatz Nigerian leaders, the various kick-back nouveau-riche governors and the crude-oil millionaires who are actual unlikely players in various self-enrichment schemes at the expense of the electorates.In all, rather than kill his subject with kindness though, or to come to rash conclusion about the state of the nascent nation, he deftly balances the account by graphically delivering the story with a show-but- not-tell method, making the problems and their origin manifest for the reader discernment. The inadequacy of the leadership as well as the passivity of the citizenry is made more palpable when stood in comparison to Indonesia, a country with which Nigeria share the same multicultural diversity, colonial experience and squalor 50 years ago. While the former has since made good on various measures, the latter shrivels in an alarming way. Some indictment.However, on the apparent original motivation for some kind of self-atonement or palliative restitution by a benevolent descendant of those pivotal men in the history visited upon Africa, the author deserves our compliment, above all for his steadfastness in putting the book together in spite of near-death experiences in the process, from armed robbers , malaria fever among other social pathologies of Nigeria.The handy bibliography at the of the book, should be informative to many Nigerians about what they otherwise do not know about their own national history, so much so that some may hopefully find in it a springboard for embarking on more serious and dispassionate study about how the country got this way. The quaint and helpful photos included are worthy -- in some cases, more than the many words in the book they aptly compliment, in shedding the light on the colonial ambiance of the era. Although, it would have been more helpful for the author to throw in a map or two, to help those not familiar with that part of the world have a better grasp.As for the atonement thing, it is doubtful if the magnanimity of his journalist friend who casually brushed off the author's reasoned inherited remorse (by unilaterally declaring the responsibility being squarely Nigerians' now) really means much. The contrast in their perspectives on this third arrival itself perhaps mirrors their epistemologies on the gravity of history. And perhaps the overall judgment for the work of this traveler of conscience is best left to posterity and to the author's conscience.
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