TY - BOOK AU - SOYINKA Wole TI - The open sore of a continent: a personal narrative of the Nigerian crisis SN - 0195105575 (pbk.): PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - HISTORY KW - NIGERIA KW - PERSONAL ACCOUNTS KW - POLITICS N2 - A personal account of recent Nigerian history and politics. Traces the growth of Nigeria as a player in the world economy, through the corrupt regime of Babangida, the civil war occasioned by the secession of Biafra under the leadership of Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, the reign of Ernest Sonekan and the coup led by General Sani Abacha ER -