Obasanjo, Nigeria and the world John Iliffe
This first full account of Obasanjo's life from 1937 to 2010 combines an analysis of an exceptionally vital and complicated man with a history of an exceptionally vital and complicated country.
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Woodbridge, Suffolk
James Currey
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: MAKING A CAREER (1937-70)
- Yoruba boy
- Nigerian soldier
- Coups & civil war
- PART II: MILITARY RULE (1970-79)
- Chance and power
- State-directed development
- African liberation
- Return to civilian rule
- PART III: PRIVATE CITIZEN (1979-99)
- The farmer
- The author
- The statesman
- The politician
- The prisoner
- The candidate
- PART IV: FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM (1999-2003)
- Containing conflict
- Salvaging the economy
- Restoring international relationships
- President and politicians
- Re-election
- PART V SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM (2003-7)
- The imperious presidency
- Economic reform
- Africa's elder statesman
- Managing the succession
- Retirement