Bribes, Bimbos and Babalawos: An Undiplomatic Memoir
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- Chidi Anselm Odinkalu’s memoir recounts Lilian’s three-decade story, described as a chain of extraordinary coincidences in Nigerian public life.
- In 1983, President Shehu Shagari’s civilian administration recruited more than 300 officers into Nigeria’s diplomatic service.
- Before the recruits completed orientation, a military coup led by Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the government.
Lilian’s story unfolds across three decades of the kind of endless coincidence that, the memoir suggests, is not unusual in Nigerian public life.
In 1983, the civilian administration of President Shehu Shagari recruited more than 300 new officers into Nigeria’s diplomatic service. They had not yet completed their orientation when Muhammadu Buhari, then a soldier, overthrew the regime.
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