A thriller of violent crime, drugs, sex and vaunting ambition. Eagle- eyed master-planner Jack Edmonds heads a cocaine consortium, and military machinery to take over governments of the world, from the US to South Africa and Nigeria. When the consortium strikes Bolivia, Columbia and Afghanistan falls and these men threaten to capture Kazakhstan and get their fingers on the nuclear button - until the intervention of Joe Lucas, CIA special agent extraordinaire. He managers to wade through the booby traps and dismantle the horrendous macinery behind the impending global holocaust.

Sand-dunes and Wind Blows

Literature & Fiction

Nwankwo, A A

Contemporary

Fourth Dimension Publishing Company

<p>This socialist political writer examines from a historical perspective, the characteristics of African dictatorships, the structures of state terrorism, regime-violence, classic despotic outfits, and junta hegemony. He argues that in view of the global demands for change and transition to democratic governance, the power of despots and tyrants will be diminished.</p>

African Dictators. the Logic of Tyrany and Lesson from History

Politics & Social Sciences

Nwankwo, Arthur A

Politics & Government

African Books Collective

The author here examines the role of African armies as self- appointed redemptive and democratising forces. He analyses the armies' disregard for democratic principles, the lessons for Nigeria from the 1970s, and at the possibility of a truly democratic Nigeria. The eight chapters are: Periscoping the Transfer Process; Re-Civilianisation and Military Re-entry; Military Disengagement: the West African Experience; Echoes from the 1979 Transition Experiment; the Path to 1992- the Repetition of History; Negotiated Withdrawal; Intra-Elitist Cleavages and the Struggle for Political Power: a Game of Revolving Doors; and On What is to be Done.

Retreat of Power

History

Africa

Corruption and the systematic looting of the state is the focus of this in-depth analysis of Nigeria from 1960 onwards, by one of Nigeria's leading writers on political matters. The author reveals the methodical way in which the state has been plundered over forty years, giving particular attention to General Abacha's regime and personality. The financial scandals of the government of his successor, General Abubakar, are also examined.

Nigeria. the Stolen Billions

Nwankwo, Agwuncha A

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