Building a Virile Nation


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Building a Virile Nation: The Private Sector Perspective presents a blueprint for every nation burdened by debilitating economic conditions and underdevelopment. It charts a course for sustainable economic development of nations as well as for propelling individuals to success in any endeavor. This collection is a major guide for governments and policy makers at all levels as well as budding and practicing business executives. It is expected that the readers shall be challenged, inspired, and empowered by some of the issues raised. "Ausbeth Ajagu is one of the Nation's emerging influencers. Author of many thought-provoking books, his latest work, Building a Virile Nation: The Private Sector Perspective, is a comprehensive roadmap for a nation in search of robust economy like Nigeria. I have no doubt in my mind that this book will inspire many people in and outside of government." -Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, FAES, Chairman, Success Attitude Development Centre, Publishers of Success Digest "Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu is a prolific writer whose thoughts have covered all imaginable problems that any country in the process of building is likely to face. Given his wealth of experience, he attempts in Building a Virile Nation a systematic approach to harnessing the resources of a nation and galvanizing such to propel the country to a respectable status among the comity of nations. I commend his efforts and fully recommend this interesting book to the public and private sectors of the economy." -Engr. Godwin Omene, FNSE, FAES, Former Managing Director, NDDC "God's divine grace brings out that potential gift in us according to His purpose. Dr. Ajagu has written another incisive masterpiece for our generation. It runs in the family gene/blood to the glory of God in Jesus name, amen." -Engr. Cyril Ajagu, FAES (VC/GMD, Universal Insurance Group Plc.) "The author's masterpiece is for all classes of people. It is for all men and women in all tiers of government. Reading the book with a clear mind and intention will definitely improve the quality of delivery of state's services. Practitioners in the private sector of our economy and those in the academia will find the book extremely useful." -Prof. Famous Izedonmi, FAES, Head, Department of Accounting, University of Benin




Nigeria: an Experiment in Nation Building


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In this painstakingly updated and comprehensive political masterpiece, Charles Nnaemeka Akujieze explores Nigeria's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial history and current affairs in Nigeria politics and administration and presents a nuanced explanation of events and circumstances that have dangerously flung this complex, dynamic and troubled giant to the brink. It is one of the most updated and comprehensive analysis of Africa's most important and populous nation that has been undermined, in recent decades, by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant corruption and an ailing economy.




Building a Nation


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The Senator


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Mum, let me have the money I told you about or father knows Larry confronts a fear-stricken, gaping mother. Not long after, he calls himself The Senator. His mother believes hes joking. So does his father. At just twelve and in JSS 1, he must only be joking. But Mike, his only friend from childhood knows better. Larrys for real. And so are his victims, opponents and the Senate building in Abuja. The terrain is tough but then is Larry. He has a mind-set and his method is two fold Blackmail, Murder. Thats the only means of getting to the top in Nigeria, he says. This is an apt summary of the nation called Nigeria. The Author, Tai Emeka Obasi was explicit in the way he brought home the reality of a country with so much paradox in a flowing, almost poetic and dramatic style. The Senator is bizarre, ruthless in expression but immensely interesting. The reader is also going to find the debt of research, humour, suspense, political intrigue all ingredients of a must read IRRESISTIBLE! -Henry Okoduwa.




Living with Nkrumahism


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In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman reexamines the infrastructure that organized and consolidated Nkrumah’s philosophy into a political program. Ahlman draws on newly available source material to portray an organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Taking us inside bureaucracies, offices, salary structures, and working routines, he painstakingly reconstructs the political and social milieu of the time and portrays a range of Ghanaians’ relationships to their country’s unique position in the decolonization process. Through fine attunement to the nuances of statecraft, he demonstrates how political and philosophical ideas shape lived experience. Living with Nkrumahism stands at the crossroads of the rapidly growing fields of African decolonization, postcolonial history, and Cold War studies. It provides a much-needed scholarly model through which to reflect on the changing nature of citizenship and political and social participation in Africa and the broader postcolonial world.




The Crawling Giant


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The Nigerian condition has been the subject of conversation among writers, policymakers, and market men and women. There is no where the subject is not broached or discussed and often solutions are proffered, from the rational to the mundane. This is to be applauded because a culture of debate is to be preferred to silence as it is a national asset. Indeed, it is the duty of the ruling elite within the state sphere to distil the feedback from the citizenry and turn it into an outcome that is healthy for the polity.




Geomodernisms


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Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term geomodernisms indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization (in revolutionary and nationalist settings, and with respect to race and nativism); and modernism's imagined geographies, pyschogeographies of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, the gender-determined.




National Manhood and the Creation of Modern Quebec


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This intellectual history explores how the idea of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and Quebec’s nationalist movement. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Quebec was an agrarian society, and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and informed by Catholic principles of piety and self-restraint. As the industrial era took hold, a new model was forged, built on the values of secularism and individualism. Jeffery Vacante’s perceptive analysis reveals how French Canadian intellectuals defined masculinity in response to imperialist English Canadian ideals. This “national manhood” would be disentangled from the workplace, the family, and the land and tied instead to one’s cultural identity. The new formulation was crucial in the larger struggle to modernize Quebec’s institutions while preserving French Canadian community, faith, and culture. It offered French Canadian men a way to remodel themselves, participate in industrial modernity, and still assert cultural authority.




Nigeria, Echoes of a Century: 1914-1999


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Echoes of a Century discusses fundamental issues in Nigeria's loose federation as well as unresolved national challenges in the past 100 years. It also examines the issue of leadership and its ceaseless manipulation through zoning, federal character, demography, ethnicity and religion that revolve around individuals against national interest; the politics and illusion of oil wealth that has become the nation's albatross; endemic corruption and societal decadence that negate her growth and development, and the clamour for a national conference to renegotiate the country's future.




Commerce


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