The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (W.E.B. Dubois Institute) - Hardcover

Soyinda, Wole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195105575 ISBN 13: 9780195105575

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This is an exploration into the history and future of Nigeria. In the process of elucidating the Nigerian crisis, the author opens readers to the broader questions of nationhood, identity, and the general state of African culture and politics at the end of the 20th century. He examines the different ways in which a nation can be defined, and asks how these varying definitions impact the people who live under them. The book concludes with a call for the global community to address the issue of nationhood to prevent further religious mandates and calls for ethnic purity of the sort that have turned Algeria, Rwanda, Bosnia and Sri Lanka into killing fields.

About this title

Product Description:

170 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Soyinka, Whose Own Nigerian Passport Was Confiscated By General Abacha In 1994, Explores The History And Future Of Nigeria In A Compelling Jeremiad That Is As Intense As It Isprovocative, Learned, And Wide-ranging.

Review:

a great work by a great writer on the grave travails of a potentially great nation (Moffat Ekoriko, The Observer)

a bold and stimulating book ... required reading for anyone who wishes to examine critically the present turmoil in Africa. (Financial Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0195105575
• ISBN 13: 9780195105575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170