Articles · Vol. 1 No 1 (2004): Revue africaine des Livres, volume 1, n° 1, 2004

8- "Small by Small, Nigeria dey Burn"

  • sanya osha
    sanya osha
    who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, began his professional career as a journalist. He taught Philosophy for several years in Nigerian universities before taking up a number of research fellowships and positions in South Africa, the United States and the Netherlands. He was a...
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Résumé

This House has Fallen: Midnight in
Nigeria by Karl Maier
Public Affairs, 2000, 327 pp.,
$18.99, ISBN 1891620606

A feature that most commentators would not fail to discern about Nigeria is its legendary resilience. One always marvels at how the dysfunctional country manages to stumble from one crisis to another without experiencing a decisive debacle or irreversible slide towards genocidal conflict like other African nations such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Sudan and Somalia. All the ingredients that could cause the final dismemberment of the nation are present in copious amount: virulent ethnicity, massive governmental cor- ruption, an over-ambitious and indisciplined military establishment, religious intolerance, widespread crime leading to a breakdown of law and order, acute pauperisation of large segments of the population, collapsed social services and many more minuses.

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  • sanya osha

    who has a Ph.D. in Philosophy, began his professional career as a journalist. He taught Philosophy for several years in Nigerian universities before taking up a number of research fellowships and positions in South Africa, the United States and the Netherlands. He was a fellow of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2002 and was a visiting scholar at Smith College, Massachusetts, United States in the fall of 2003. Between September and November 2003, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Currently, he is affiliated to the Centre for Civil Society, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His book, Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa was published in 2005. As a guest of the Agency in Africa theme group at the African Studies Centre, Dr. Osha will work on two main projects. The first examines the question of theoretical agency in the work of Kwasi Wiredu, a major Ghanaian philosopher. The second addresses the new configuration of creative agency in contemporary Nigerian letters.