This is an exploration into the history and future of Nigeria. In the process of elucidating the Nigerian crisis, the author opens readers to the broader questions of nationhood, identity, and the general state of African culture and politics at the end of the 20th century. He examines the different ways in which a nation can be defined, and asks how these varying definitions impact the people who live under them. The book concludes with a call for the global community to address the issue of nationhood to prevent further religious mandates and calls for ethnic purity of the sort that have turned Algeria, Rwanda, Bosnia and Sri Lanka into killing fields.
- ISBN10 0195105575
- ISBN13 9780195105575
- Publish Date 12 September 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English