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When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter’s The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria’s spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust.
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The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria
This book provides a historically informed and persuasive story connecting the beginning of the slave trade all the way up to the Ogoni tragedy, 419 scams, and the spectacle of petroleum boom and bust. Given increased corporate interest in Africa and especially Nigeria as the ‘next Gulf’ (see book The Next Gulf by Andy Rowell, James Marriott & Lorne Stockman), it is important to read literature like Apter’s and get a different view of the world from the neoliberal, corporate-led globalization, ‘war on terror’ worldviews currently prevalent in development literature and political economy literature in general.
Rating: 5 / 5