| This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis Contributor(s): Maier, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813340454 ISBN-13: 9780813340456 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Political Science | Political Economy - History | Africa - West |
| Dewey: 966.905 |
| LCCN: 2004274497 |
| Lexile Measure: 1260 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.25" W x 9.25" (1.15 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Africa - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with depressing consistency, Nigeria is declared the most corrupt state in the entire world. Though Nigeria is a nation into which billions of dollars of oil money flow, its per capita income has fallen dramatically in the past two decades. Military coup follows military coup. A bellwether for Africa, it is a country of rising ethnic tensions and falling standards of living, very possibly on the verge of utter collapse -- a collapse that could dramatically overshadow even the massacres in Rwanda. A brilliant piece of reportage and travel writing, This House Has Fallenlooks into the Nigerian abyss and comes away with insight, profound conclusions, and even some hope. Updated with a new preface by the author. |