[maxsiollun]

Guys, thanks for your comments. Just to let you know, I wrote the book in order to inform and educate - not to make money. I spent several years researching, traveling and flying all over the place to interview people, collect historical documents, and reading line by line through all manner of archives and documentation in order to get to the root of our history. The amount of time and energy I spent in preparing the book could itself be the subject of a book!

This is the most troubling period of Nigerian history and it is a tragedy that we do not do enough to learn and preserve our history. We know all about the American civil war, Pearl Harbour and the battle of Hastings, but not enough of us know our own history.

I wrote the book in a balanced way - just presenting the facts and allowing the reader to make up their own mind about the controversies covered. We owe it to our future generations to preserve the legacy of these critical times, so they do not repeat the mistakes of the past...