BOOKS, BARDS, AND BARBS. By O. Bolaji

BOOKS BARDS AND BARBS. By O Bolaji

THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA. By Chinua Achebe

TWO EXCERPTS FROM THIS BOOK:

"Many Presidents, especially Third World Presidents, do not live in their country. One of the penalties of exalted power is loneliness. Harnessed to the trappings of protocol and blockaded by a buffer of grinning courtiers and sycophants, even a good and intelligent leader will gradually begin to forget what the real world looks like...."

"Nigeria is NOT a great country. It is one of the most disorderly nations in the world. It is one of the most corrupt, insensitive, inefficient places under the sun ... It is dirty, callous, noisy, ostentatious, dishonest and vulgar. In short, it is among the most unpleasant places on earth!" Achebe does not pull his punches in this work!