NIGERIA

Seen from some angles, Nigeria is a remarkable success story: despite its poorly conceived colonial origins, the lingering damage of its colonial subjugation, tenacious civil war, wildly unequal economy, and the recent insurgency by Boko Haram, it has nonetheless remained one nation, growing in population and power, for more than a century now.This new look at Nigeria traces the countrys hist ory from its pre-colonial days as the home region to a number of distinct tribal powers through its definition by Britain as a singl e nation i...[Llegir més]