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The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Andrew Apter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 334 pp.

FESTAC 1977 and indeed, the entire gamut of Pan-Africanism or Negritude stem from the experience of slave trade, slavery and colonialism. Apter's book could be viewed from the historiographical tradition of a-historical Africa (Afropessimism) that re-affirms the influential notion of a dark continent bereft of a history except the activities of the Europeans, civilizing mission of colonial rule and the failure of the post-colonial state.

Divided into eight chapters, this book is an account of the author's frustration with African (Nigerian) condition which he described as his ten year odyssey "personal note." It's a fascinating combination of autobiography and odyssey "in search of the primitive (?) ... the deeper into the bush one went, the more authentic the culture one found" (p. 2). To...

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