Author: Alexander A. Madiebo Book Title: The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran Civil War. Publisher: Fourth Dimension Publishing Co. Ltd., Enugu, 1980. ISBN: 978-156117-3. Pages xii+410. Terhemba Wuam Alexander A. Madiebo’s career as a soldier lasted for seventeen years. He joined the Nigerian army and served the Nigerian federation for 14 years. In the NigerianContinue reading “Alexander Madiebo Fades Away“
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Justice James Ogebe: His Life and the Court in Nigeria
Book Title: Justice under the Shadow of the Almighty: My Life Sojourn to the Supreme Court Author: Honourable Justice James Ogebe, JSC, Rtd. Publisher: NiU Nation Publishers, Ile-Ife. ISBN: 979-8-6373-3107-9 Pages: xxvi+306 Terhemba Wuam In 2020, Justice James Ogebe, JSC published his autobiography. If a reader were taking up the book for legal insight, perhapsContinue reading “Justice James Ogebe: His Life and the Court in Nigeria“
African Peace Foundation and World Peace Promotion
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Peace Culture: A Monumental Evidence for Global Co-Existence Author: Ola Makinwa and Others Publisher: African Peace Foundation, Abuja. ISBN:: 978-978-086-908-3 Pages: l+436 Towards the end of the twentieth century, Africa was increasingly considered in the international community as a hopeless case for peace and the development of a peace culture. DecadesContinue reading “African Peace Foundation and World Peace Promotion“
The Beneficent Fruits of Capitalism: Yuval Noah Harari’s Capitalist Creed
Book Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Publishers: Vintage, London Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780099590088 Pages: 498 Terhemba Wuam In 2011 Yuval Noah Harari published his wonderful book on the story of Homo Sapiens. Due to its impact and influence, we recall it more than a decade after. Yuval Noah HarariContinue reading “The Beneficent Fruits of Capitalism: Yuval Noah Harari’s Capitalist Creed”
Change and Transformation: Women and Youth Agency in the Fourth Republic
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: Culture, Democracy and Security in Nigeria Editors: Ado Muhammed Yahuza and Audee T. Giwa Publisher: Kraft Books Limited, Ibadan. Year: 2020 Pages: 89 pages ISBN: 978-978-918-725-6 Insecurity is now an inescapable part of the lexicon when discussing the state of human affairs in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. The exhilaration with which NigeriansContinue reading “Change and Transformation: Women and Youth Agency in the Fourth Republic”
Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi and the Coups of 1966 and Military Rule in Nigeria
Book Title: Ironsi: Nigeria, the Army, Power and Politics Author: Chucks Iloegbunam Publishers: Press Alliance Network Limited Pages: 298 Year: 2019 This book is indeed a worthy read for several reasons. A well written, balanced and illuminating account of a dark period in the annals of Nigerian history, especially about the role and misrepresentation ofContinue reading “Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi and the Coups of 1966 and Military Rule in Nigeria”
Nigerian Politics and the Fear of Political Marginalisation
Book Title: J.S. Tarka: The Dilemma of Ethnic Minority Politics in Nigeria Author: Godwin Nyor Hembe Publishers: Aboki Publishers, Makurdi Pages: pp. xxiv+453 Year: 2003 ISBN: 978-8098-03-7 This is a retrospective take on Professor Godwin Nyor Hembe’s magnum opus, published almost twenty years ago. It offers a fundamental analysis of Nigerian politics from the ethnicContinue reading “Nigerian Politics and the Fear of Political Marginalisation”
Ike Ekweremadu’s Lamentations
Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa Book Tittle: Who Will Love My Country: Ideas for Building the Nigeria of Our Dreams Author: Ike Ekweremadu Publisher: Goldline and Jacobs Publishing, New Jersey, USA, 2016 Pages: 158 ISBN: 978-193-859-820-3 This book comprises of fourteen chapters and is authored by a fifth term Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria andContinue reading “Ike Ekweremadu’s Lamentations”
Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria
Terhemba Wuam Book Title: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Author: Timothy Snyder Publisher: Tim Duggan Books, 2017 ISBN: Ebook, 9780804190121 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century was a response to Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 elections that made him the 45th president of the United States of America. AccordingContinue reading “Building Democracy without Tyranny: Lessons for Nigeria”
Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna
Book Title: Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000 Authors: Inuwa K. Bahago and Nehemiah I. Madugu Publishers: Kaduma Bahago Evangelistic Foundation, Kaduna Year: 2020 Pages: xiv+ 142 ISBN: 978-978-986-529-1 Terhemba Wuam The art of biography as the study of man and his times gains credence in this volume on Rev. Kaduma Bahago. In Rev. Kaduma Bahago 1919-2000,Continue reading “Rev. Kaduma Bahago and a Century of Transformation in Religion and Society in Southern Kaduna”
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