Africa Truly Rising

9 December 2016
opinion

After the return of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu from England in 1957 after a 13-year sojourn for his educational pursuits, his wealthy and influential father wanted him to put his education to good use by joining the family business. He had other ideas as he had a brief stint in the colonial service and then headed to the army then known as the Queen's Regiment.

A livid Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu tried to 'talk some sense' into the young man and enlisted the support of the then Governor-General, James Robertson to 'bail him out.' The British colonial administrator told Emeka point-blank that if he thought what happened in Egypt in 1952 when Colonel Abdel Nasser came to power through a coup could ever happen in Nigeria, he was mistaken. That statement turned out to be prophetic as it marked the pattern of Africa's governance for the next three decades.

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