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Peter Cunliffe-Jones has been a foreign correspondent for over 20 years for The Economist, The Independent and the Paris-based Agence France Presse news agency where he is now a senior editor. Since 1990 he has reported from western Europe, the Balkans, West Africa, and East Asia. He is today the agency’s head of English-language multimedia news. From 1998 to 2003 he was AFP bureau chief in Lagos, Nigeria. He lives in London.
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Prologue Three Arrivals | p. 1 |
A Place of Great Potential | p. 11 |
The Troubles of Nigeria | p. 23 |
Conquest | p. 41 |
Another Man's Home | p. 63 |
My Family Connection | p. 75 |
Civil War and Bloodshed | p. 89 |
Misrule and Plunder | p. 103 |
What You Left Behind | p. 113 |
Two Hours from Singapore | p. 119 |
The Cost of Oil | p. 125 |
Corruption and Trust | p. 147 |
Divided You Fall | p. 163 |
Stamp Your Feet: Histories of Protest | p. 179 |
Dreams of a New Nigeria | p. 195 |
Epilogue The Point of Departure | p. 213 |
Key Dates in Nigerian History | p. 219 |
Notes | p. 223 |
A Selected Bibliography | p. 229 |
Index | p. 232 |
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