The Elusive Search For Nation Nigeria By Aare Afe Babalola. SAN, OFR, CON, FCIArb, FNIALS, LL.D.(London) – TheNigerialawyer

This book provides the first comprehensive, authoritative,
multi-sectoral and multidimensional examination of the history,
nature, causes and potential solutions to the contemporary and
constitutional challenges facing the Nigerian nation. It unpacks
the founding principles, constitutional history, and key landmark
events that have contributed to the evolution, growth and gradual
balkanization of the ideals of nationhood and nationalism in
Nigeria.

After providing the history and historiography of the Nigerian
nation, the book offers sector by-sector diagnoses of the key
challenges facing Nigeria, as well as the important steps for
rediscovering the founding visions of unity, peace, prosperity, and
progress that have increasingly become elusive in Nigeria for much
of the last decade.

Drawing vastly from the author’s many years of experience as a
lawyer, educationist, farmer, community leader, philanthropist and
global citizen, this book explores how questions of poverty
eradication, economic stability, electoral reform, green revolution
and agricultural expansion, educational transformation, human
rights protection, judicial independence, fiscal federalism,
accountability, corporate social responsibility, environmental
justice, and participatory development have been, and could be
better, addressed in Nigeria.

Coming at a time of real need, the book develops the first
comprehensive Manifesto for Transformational Leadership in
Nigeria, a set of 10 principles of transformational leadership
that could help unlock an era of unity, peace, prosperity, and
progress in Nigeria.

The book is prepared in a user-friendly style to enhance its
utility among its primary audience, namely students, corporations,
investors, environmental and human rights administrators,
advocates, policymakers, judges, international negotiators, and
government officials who wish to know more about the history,
historiography, and future of Nigeria’s constitutional
development.

Reviews and Endorsements

“Having read the book authored by the highly revered eminent
legal luminary of repute, Aare

Afe Babalola SAN, I am certainly not surprised by the quality of
the book. This is because of Afe Babalola I know very well does not
do anything halfway. Over the years, I have known him as somebody
who puts his personality at stake in everything he lays his hands
on. This latest book is not an exception. Whether in articulating
academic research or systematic presentation, the book speaks for
itself. Another well noticeable phenomenon in the book is the
passion of the author about the country Nigeria. Going through the
book, he is not only altruistic but very futuristic about the
country. Hence in each observation of weakness and defect in the
national polity, he proffers scientifically verifiable solutions to
each of them. This makes the book a “Must Read” for individuals and
institutions who have the interest of the country in mind”

IKU BABA YEYE Oba (Dr) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III,
JP., CFR, LLD, SAP, D.LITT, DPA, FICJ  The Alaafin of Oyo and
Permanent Chairman of Oyo State Council of Obas and
Chiefs

“Having taught law as a Professor of Law in Africa, Asia,
Europe, North America, and the Middle East, I can say with all
emphasis and temerity at my disposal that this is the most
ingenious, compelling and extensively well-researched book that I
have ever read. It is a complete Encyclopedia of Constitutional
Law and Comparative Global Politics.

The book is like an onion, each layer is filled with limitless
value. Well contextualized in history, anthropology, law,
economics, political philosophy, government, international affairs,
environmental science, agriculture, and food science, this is not
an ordinary book. It is a revolutionary compendium of facts,
figures, analyses and exceptional insights on the foundations and
inherent challenges facing Nigeria’s attempt to form a cohesive
nation out of the hundreds of nations which inhabit the
geographical enclave called Nigeria.  The 10 principles of
transformational leadership in the book provide penetrating and
thought-provoking guidelines that should naturally be adopted by
any progressive, forward-thinking and well-meaning political party
and politician in Nigeria and Africa.”

Professor Damilola S. Olawuyi, LL.M (Calgary), LL.M
(Harvard) PhD (Oxford), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics,
Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships), Afe Babalola
University, Ado Ekiti

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