Divided We Fail

Nigeria has never lacked for explanations of its own failure - corruption, poor leadership, weak institutions, colonial legacies. Each names something real; none answers why the failure persists.

A sequel to Storytelling as Power, this book argues that Nigeria is not a nation poorly governed for sixty years, but a nation whose shared story - its common language of identity, purpose and possibility - has been systematically fragmented, and traces the precise mechanism by which that coherence was broken, and by which it must be rebuilt. Drawing on Walter Rodney, Cheikh Anta Diop, Claude Ake, Chinua Achebe and Kwame Nkrumah, and offering the National Story Model as a diagnostic framework, it is written for governance practitioners, citizens and scholars alike.