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Title: The Open Grave:
Nadeco and the Struggle for Democracy
Author: Olawale Oshun
Publisher: Josel Publisher,
London
Pages: 296
Price: £15.00 (Hardback)
 The Open Grave is the story of
Nigeria
’s foremost pro-democracy movement NADECO, the individuals and
associations which made up the movement, its operations and its myth.
For almost five years (1994-1999), NADECO was the invisible hand behind
almost every political development in
Nigeria
. The movement’s voice rang loudly and clearly in
Nigeria
and in hallowed diplomatic chambers across the world. For
Nigeria
’s dictator General Sani Abacha, the fear of NADECO was the beginning of
wisdom. In this book, the author Olawale Oshun, explores the narrow
mindedness of Nigeria’s moneyed class, the international intrigues that
helped sustain the military dictatorship, and with due appreciation, the
courage and commitment of unsung Nigerians who at the risk of their
lives gave NADECO its aura. It is Olawale’s second political book and a
continuation of the thesis of his first: Clapping With One Hand:
June 12 and the crisis of a State Nation
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Title: Who’s Who in Nigeria (2nd
Edition)
Editor: Bankole Makinde
Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited
Pages: 1,388
Price: £32.00
 Newswatch Who’s Who in Nigeria (2nd
Edition) is an update of the maiden edition which was published in 1990. It is a
standard reference on Nigerians of outstanding accomplishment; the movers and
shakers in Nigeria, captains of industry and commerce, titans of the academia,
renowned administrators, great scientists, prominent statesmen, famous writers
and journalists, barons of the bar and bench, military big-wigs, governors,
ministers, commissioners and other leading personalities of the day.
Unlike the first edition which contained 2,200 entries and
was 803 pages long, the 2nd edition is much bigger, containing more
than 4,000 entries and is 1, 388 pages. It is also the most up to date
bibliographical encyclopedia on and about Nigerians of merit.
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 Title: Adebayo Adedeji: A Rainbow in the Sky of Time
Author: Sanmi-Ajiki
Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited, Lagos, Nigeria
Pages: 454
Price: £15.00
Professor Adebayo Adedeji was one of Africa's foremost public servants. As
the boss of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and an under-secretary at
the United Nations for many years, he left an indelible mark on the work and
objectives of the ECA.. Such was his influence and contribution that The
Guardian (of London and Manchester) described him as "the man who has
given himself a special licence to say the things about Africa, which no one
wants to hear." This authorised biography, A Rainbow in the Sky of Time,
takes a critical look at his life and times, vision and mission. It is an
authoritative book on a man of many parts.
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 Title: The Link With The Past
Author: Alfred Rewane
Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan, Nigeria
Pages: 235
Price: £12
The late Alfred Rewane was an icon of Nigeria's pro-democracy movement during
the dark days of the later dictator General Sani Abacha. His murder on October
6, 1995 in suspicious circumstance provoked national and international outcry.
His book, The Link With the Past, put together posthumously and released
in late 2000, is a collection of his forthright views on the burning
socio-political and economic issues in Nigeria. It is an insight into what made
Rewane an outstanding defender of democracy and the rule of law.
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 Title:
Fellow
Nigerians (Turning Points in
the
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Political History of Nigeria)
- Author: Dan Agbese
- Publisher: Umbrella Books, Ibadan,
Nigeria (2000)
- Pages: 167
- Price: £12.00
Two kinds of
literature have emerged in Nigeria over the last decade or
so—accounts by military men justifying coup making or the
civil war and the largely boring ululations and lullabies of
sycophants in the name of biographers. Fellow
Nigerians addresses the curious connection between
the profiles of Nigeria’s past leaders and their
subsequent roles in retirement. The author gives us, largely
unedited, a fascinating repertoire of the foibles, the
recklessness, tardiness, the litter and glitter of the
maiden addresses of Nigerian past heads of state.
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 Title:
Clapping
With One Hand
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June 12 And The Crisis Of A State Nation
- Author: Olawale Oshun
- Publisher: Joel Publishers, London
(1999)
- Pages: 301
- Price: £15.00
Clapping With
One Hand is an insider’s
account of what is known in Nigeria as the June 12 Struggle,
the epic political battle fought over the annulment of
Nigeria’s presidential election of June 12, 19993. It is a
story of betrayal, hatred and calculated self-interest that
is bound to jar the mind of the reader. But it is also a
book of the failure of the Nigerian project and how that
failure continues to manifest itself in every sphere of the
country’s life.
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 Title:
Awo or Zik: Who Won the 1951
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Western Nigeria Election
- Author: Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu
- Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan,
Nigeria (1998)
- Pages: 82
- Price: £7.00
A definitive work that seeks to lay to permanent rest the
controversy that has dogged the results of the
parliamentary elections into the Western Nigeria Regional
House of Assembly in 1951. Was there really, as claimed
that some parliamentarians crossed carpet to enable Action
Group form the government?
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 Title:
This
Black Jesus (The conspiracy
and the
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world’s best secret)
- Author:
Etiese T. Mkpa Abasika
- Publisher:
Newswatch Books Limited, Lagos (1993)
- Pages:
189
- Price: £12.00
- * Only
limited copies available
This Black
Jesus follows a
well-beaten track of controversial publications on the
Christian religion. And it is, as far as it is known, the
first to advance the thesis that Jesus was not a white man
but a black man. It takes some courage to mane such an
assertion but the author argues that the Caucasian race had
appropriated Jesus as a white man to serve its vested racial
interest.
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 Title:
Style
(The Newswatch Stylebook)
- Author: Dan Agbese
- Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited,
Lagos (1996)
- Pages: 151
- Price: £10.00
Style is about the
house style of what has become the quintessential Nigerian
news magazine that has grown to be respected as a national
icon—the Newswatch magazine.
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 Title:
Songs
of an Egg-head
- Author: Tekena Tamuno
- Publisher: Alafeni, Port Harcourt
(1982)
- Pages: 184
- Price: £10.00
Wide-ranging in its
coverage is this set of
“songs” (poems), forty-two in all. Launched on
the music circle’s platform, they combine subtle sense of
humour with horse sense and are nimble in their assaults on
man and the society through fictional character.
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 Title:
Diplomatic
Baggage (Mossad & Nigeria:
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The Dikko Story)
- Author: Kayode Soyinka
- Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited,
Lagos (1994)
- Pages: 286
- Price: £12.00
Diplomatic Baggage
is the riveting story of the attempted kidnap of a former
Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko from his London home. The
story, as told by the author Kayode Soyinka, a London based
Nigerian journalist and publisher, reads in part like a Le
Carre thriller, with the involvement of at least two secret
services.
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 Title:
Festival
of Songs & Drums
- Author: Tekena Tamuno
- Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited,
Lagos (1999)
- Pages: 141
- Price: £12.00
Here is a welcome
companion volume to the author’s exciting Songs of an
Egg-Head. This work, in light or free verse, provides
more penetrating insights into life generally and into the
life-styles of a contemporary society with which the author
is closely identified as a scholar and citizen.
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