It’s been nine years since David Szalay’s last novel, “All That Man Is,” and while he quickly followed it up with an ...

If you read the book ... of life, the destruction of the economy, the high-profile deaths like Kudirat Abiola, Bagauda Kaltho, etc. There was no mention, not to say regrets or even a funereal ...

The association of Igbos with the coup led to attacks on members of that community around the country and ultimately to the civil war in which some Igbo leaders tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967.

In the book, Babangida, now 83 ... "I had to choose between saving a friend's life and the nation's future," he writes. Another contentious issue has been the 1966 coup which overthrew Nigeria's ...