My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence

His nineteenth-century cousin paddled ashore by slaves twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later his grandfather helped craft Nigerias constitution and negotiate its independence the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital Lagos just as military rule ended to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.. Part family memoir part history My Nigeria ...See More