My Participations: An Autobiography
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.My Participations is the odyssey of a Nigerian elder statesman who, for more than half a century, was at the ringside of history, bringing us authentic first hand accounts about the defining moments of Africa's greatest country and the men and women who forged its personality: Obafemi Awolowo, Bola Ige, Olusegun Obasanjo, Muhammadu Buhari, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Ibrahim Babangida, Wole Soyinka and many others. This book pulsates with the life and blood of Nigeria, its occasional turbulence and its tempestuous temper.
In this book, you will read about the assassination of Bola Ige, the Ife-Modakeke crisis and the nerve wracking intrigues and meticulous planning that finally gave birth to the All Progressive Congress, APC, which ended the reign of the old Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015.
With this book, Akande has stirred the hornets' nest and revelations from My Participations would affect public debates and perceptions of Nigerian Leadership and politics for generations to come.
This book is fluid and engaging and gives the reader a ringside seat to the inner sanctum of government. It is an account of an illustrious, international diplomatic career spanning over twenty five years. It is told with candour and insightfulness and written with ease and elegance. The reader is bound to enjoy it and some may even find it attractive enough to call it thrilling because it reads l..
