A Fatherless People
Nigeria is a country of which much is heard and about little is understood. The product of an ambitious amalgamation, in 1914, of three hundred & seventy one ethnic groups in the area of River Niger, with as many languages to form the most populous state in British-Africa (estimated at 170 million people).
The book seeks to make sense of the events in this country of many paradoxes; a land of extreme poverty alongside stupendous wealth; a country where, in the North, Islamists proclaim Western Education to be sin even while elsewhere in the country; as well as the return of and agitation for Biafra secession by a new generation of Igbos in the south east.
A Fatherless People: The Secret Story of How the Nigerians missed the road to the promised land; tells the story of Nigeria from its early conceptualization by British colonialists in the aftermath of the abolition of the slave trade, and also up to the present day.
AUTHOR: Dele Ogun
