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Article: THIS HOUSE HAS FALLEN.(Review)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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[pound]18.99 Allen Lane ISBN 0-713-995-238
Karl Maier describes Nigeria as "the most confounding, frustrating, and at the same time engaging place I have ever visited. It simply overwhelms the senses, one of those rare examples in which the sum of its parts is, at least to date, immensely greater than its whole. It is a work in progress, though one is never too sure whether it is being assembled or torn apart."
In this book he summarises the social and political events that have shaped Nigeria, and attempts to explain how 40 years of independence have transformed what was once Africa's brightest hope as a independent nation-state into a byword for ...