Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The President of Nigeria, elected in 1999, gives a detailed account of his friend and colleague Chukwuma Nzeogwu, a young army officer who led the shocking and first military coup d'etat of 1966, which toppled the civilian government and heralded thirteen years of military dictatorship until the elections of 1998. Was he a genuine revolutionary or a reactionary? Was he a hero or villain? The President provides his answers to these questions which have surrounded the enigmatic and controversial Nzeogwu, and supports his views with personal letters and other documents. He describes him as idealistic and patriotic; though exhibiting more enthusiasm and naivety than wisdom or prudence.
Nzeogwu
Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The President of Nigeria, elected in 1999, gives a detailed account of his friend and colleague Chukwuma Nzeogwu, a young army officer who led the shocking and first military coup d'etat of 1966, which toppled the civilian government and heralded thirteen years of military dictatorship until the elections of 1998. Was he a genuine revolutionary or a reactionary? Was he a hero or villain? The President provides his answers to these questions which have surrounded the enigmatic and controversial Nzeogwu, and supports his views with personal letters and other documents. He describes him as idealistic and patriotic; though exhibiting more enthusiasm and naivety than wisdom or prudence.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The President of Nigeria, elected in 1999, gives a detailed account of his friend and colleague Chukwuma Nzeogwu, a young army officer who led the shocking and first military coup d'etat of 1966, which toppled the civilian government and heralded thirteen years of military dictatorship until the elections of 1998. Was he a genuine revolutionary or a reactionary? Was he a hero or villain? The President provides his answers to these questions which have surrounded the enigmatic and controversial Nzeogwu, and supports his views with personal letters and other documents. He describes him as idealistic and patriotic; though exhibiting more enthusiasm and naivety than wisdom or prudence.
Who Killed Major Nzeogwu?
Author: Charles Abi Enonchong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973370390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The 2017 rewrite of the 1986 bestseller, this collectors edition details untold secrets on the Major Nzeogwu led 15 January 1966 coup as well as the 29 July 1966 military coup in Nigeria.Can the assassin of a national hero be a hero? Charles Enonchong is the producer-director of the bestselling video documentary THE NIGERIAN-BIAFRAN WAR PARTS 1,2,3 & 4.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973370390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
The 2017 rewrite of the 1986 bestseller, this collectors edition details untold secrets on the Major Nzeogwu led 15 January 1966 coup as well as the 29 July 1966 military coup in Nigeria.Can the assassin of a national hero be a hero? Charles Enonchong is the producer-director of the bestselling video documentary THE NIGERIAN-BIAFRAN WAR PARTS 1,2,3 & 4.
Oil, Politics and Violence
Author: Max Siollun
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 087586709X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 087586709X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
"An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa s first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region. However, these lofty hopes were soon dashed and the country lumbered from crisis to crisis, with the democratic government eventually being overthrown in a violent military coup in January 1966. From 1966 until 1999, the army held onto power almost uninterrupted under a succession of increasingly authoritarian military governments and army coups. Military coups and military rule (which began as an emergency aberration) became a seemingly permanent feature of Nigerian politics. The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance by exploiting the country's oil wealth and ethnic divisions to its advantage."--Publisher's description.
Oil, Politics and Violence
Author: Max Siollun
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875867103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the ?Giant of Africa, ? Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa's first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region.
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875867103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
An insider traces the details of hope and ambition gone wrong in the ?Giant of Africa, ? Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. When it gained independence from Britain in 1960, hopes were high that, with mineral wealth and over 140 million people, the most educated workforce in Africa, Nigeria would become Africa's first superpower and a stabilizing democratic influence in the region.
I Know who Killed Major Nzeogwu!
Author: Charles Enonchong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Major C.K. Nzeogwu
Author: Okeleke Peter Nzeogwu
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Spotlight Poets
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Broken Back Axle
Author: Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453573623
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When a country's army headquarters that is commissioned to deafeat the enemy becomes an indisputable agent of the enemey, defeat of the country is inevitable. This book is about ethnic dynamics and conflict in a multi-ethnic federation where one ethnic group sets out to eliminate an economically and academically domination one by a pogrom. The pogrom led to the secession of the oppressed ethnic group along with its minority elements in the region. In effect, a Civil War ensued. The oppressed and secessionist ethnic group, the Igbos, had the wherewithal to defeat the federal forces within three weeks, but they were internally defeated by a culture of segregation. The culturally segregated class secretly allied with the federal forces to crush the secessionist region- Biafra. The author lays down, in describing the modue operandi of the segregated class- (saboteurs), his nerve-racking experiences in the battlefiled where bonafide Biafran soldiers were hunted by their fellow comrades. Unfortunately, they did not know that they were being hunted by those they had no reason to fear. Some lucky and sincere Biafran soldiers came to know what was happening when the war was virtually over. But many did not survive the acts of sabotage. They perished in the hands of their fellow comrades. The author prescribes manifest nullification of all forms of overt and covert cultural segregation in Igbo culture for the ethnic survival. On the whole, the book demonstrates a convergence of conflict sociology, cultural anthropology, plotical history, military science, ethos of mysticism, spiritualism, and mystic philosophy in an amazing story.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453573623
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
When a country's army headquarters that is commissioned to deafeat the enemy becomes an indisputable agent of the enemey, defeat of the country is inevitable. This book is about ethnic dynamics and conflict in a multi-ethnic federation where one ethnic group sets out to eliminate an economically and academically domination one by a pogrom. The pogrom led to the secession of the oppressed ethnic group along with its minority elements in the region. In effect, a Civil War ensued. The oppressed and secessionist ethnic group, the Igbos, had the wherewithal to defeat the federal forces within three weeks, but they were internally defeated by a culture of segregation. The culturally segregated class secretly allied with the federal forces to crush the secessionist region- Biafra. The author lays down, in describing the modue operandi of the segregated class- (saboteurs), his nerve-racking experiences in the battlefiled where bonafide Biafran soldiers were hunted by their fellow comrades. Unfortunately, they did not know that they were being hunted by those they had no reason to fear. Some lucky and sincere Biafran soldiers came to know what was happening when the war was virtually over. But many did not survive the acts of sabotage. They perished in the hands of their fellow comrades. The author prescribes manifest nullification of all forms of overt and covert cultural segregation in Igbo culture for the ethnic survival. On the whole, the book demonstrates a convergence of conflict sociology, cultural anthropology, plotical history, military science, ethos of mysticism, spiritualism, and mystic philosophy in an amazing story.
A Man of the People
Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts—and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When Odili launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution. Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe’s body of work.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101666390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. When Odili, an idealistic young teacher, visits his former instructor at the ministry, the division between them is vast. But in the eat-and-let-eat atmosphere, Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts—and the two men's personal and political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. When Odili launches a vicious campaign against his former mentor for the same seat in an election, their mutual animosity drives the country to revolution. Published, prophetically, just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966, A Man of the People is an essential part of Achebe’s body of work.
The Laws of the Bosses:
Author: Tilawan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496983416
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Who are the bosses? How do they come to power? What are their preferences? How brutal can they be? What have they got to do with a sense of humour? What do bosses do in times of danger? What justice is there to expect from the boss? Who are the subordinates? How can the subordinates survive the bosses? And what has spirit and soul got to do with power play? What are the dangers of body language in the world of the bosses? Where are the answers? They are in The Laws of the Bosses. This book is an impressive illustration of power display by bosses who make their own laws and live by them. The book contains over seventy true-life accounts of power, highlighting the intrigues of several bosses from all walks of life and from all parts of the world.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496983416
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Who are the bosses? How do they come to power? What are their preferences? How brutal can they be? What have they got to do with a sense of humour? What do bosses do in times of danger? What justice is there to expect from the boss? Who are the subordinates? How can the subordinates survive the bosses? And what has spirit and soul got to do with power play? What are the dangers of body language in the world of the bosses? Where are the answers? They are in The Laws of the Bosses. This book is an impressive illustration of power display by bosses who make their own laws and live by them. The book contains over seventy true-life accounts of power, highlighting the intrigues of several bosses from all walks of life and from all parts of the world.
Why We Struck
Author: Adewale Ademoyega
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description