Author: Babatunde Andrew Shadeko
Year of Publication : 2013
Reviewer: Fesowola O. V. Akintoye
The author, Chief Babatunde Andrew Shadeko was born on the 2nd of February 1943 in Lagos and grew up in the mining city of Jos. He attended University of Ibadan and University of New Brunswick, Canada. He worked as a Land Surveyor (1970-1977) with the Federal Surveys and subsequently started his survey practice in 1977. Chief Shadeko wrote his first book in 1980 titled "The Magic Land of Nigeria" based on his work as a surveyor and extensive travels across Nigeria. His second book titled "Nation Building from the Grassroot: The Imperative of Awori Nationalism"was written to highlight the challenges of the minorities.
The author is an example of the generation of patriots that have given every effort at building the Nigeria that could have been the envy of other nations.
His third and latest book ( Under review) provides insight to key historical national issues that are critical to explaining the inability of the several nations within the Nigerian nation to fuse together for collective focus and national posterity. He has also in the third book appealed to our collective psyche, that a national dream is the only prerequisite to our collective ambitions, successes and posterity.
The book assessed the feasibility of the achieving the Nigerian dream, the problems and the solutions; it also laid out as a proposal, potential organization and administrative arrangements as well as the social mobilization of the citizenry for the realization of the Nigerian dream. In conclusion, the author presented several blueprints for the realization of the Nigerian dream.book convincingly encouraging the present generation of national leaders and the followers to rise up to the challenges of building a nation that generations unborn will be proud to own
Chief Shadeko has shown that the surveyor in his duty, in his interactions with citizens across the states and communities and all through the country has a good understanding of the nature and expectations of the real Nigerians; the local indigenous people of our country who has a limited say on most national issues, and for whom a united and a prosperous Nigeria has been a daily prayer.
This book is a must read for children of history and those who wish to recall or know in chronological order our past as a people through the struggles for independence, post independence, the roles of the military in post independence Nigeria and also the three democratic rules. I heartily recommend this book.
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