Recollections

<p>Phyl Amadi looks back at life growing up in Nigeria in this collection of essays that celebrates a time of simplicity when tribes lived in harmony.</p><p>But that idyllic life did not last: He also lived through the dark days of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war that broke out in 1967 and lasted until 1970. Even when it ended life was never the same.</p><p>The fighting triggered a progression of seemingly never-ending decay in Nigerian society which today is manifested in fraudulent and violent electoral processes bloody religious conflicts a corrupt public service deteriorating infrastructure and the pervasive false religiosity that seeks to exploit the people.</p><p>While much has changed in recent years so much remains the same-with everyday Nigerians still struggling to come to terms with the past while coping with the complexities of the present.</p><p>These essays written from 2000 to 2005 will make you laugh cry and think-but most importantly-they suggest a way to move beyond the pain of the past and toward a brighter future.</p>