Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been
writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has
been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian
publications. Covered in this volume: politics in Liberia, salutary
effects of elections in Ghana, constitutional manipulations in Niger,
canons of Kwame Nkrumah to sobering reflections on Nigeria, what he
calls the rise and fall of Nigeria's diplomacy, and the import of Hilary
Clinton's assessment of state of governance. In East Africa violent
elections in Kenya, the complexities of the Zimbabwe situation, and the
person of Robert Mugabe himself. South Africa, from the shocking wave of
explosive manifestations of xenophobia to bilateral relations with
Nigeria. For the African continent attention is given to a variety of
events: developments in the European Union, American foreign policy and
the dominance of CNN. Present throughout is a concern for proper
governance and development that should encourage critical thinking and
thus eliminate the poverty of ideas among the African political and
bureaucratic policy makers.