A tender coming-of-age story forged in the crucible of Biafra, War Games is a relentlessly candid and unsentimental reconstruction of a halcyon world suddenly shattered by hate, flight and strife. For Basil Chekwubechukwu Odukwe or Cheche, the good life as a rich landlord's son in northern Nigeria suddenly turns nightmarish as the country descends into civil war. The five-year-old yet to know the meaning of Nigeria's independence perforce escapes to his rural village of Amafor in the south to start a different life in the shadow of traumatized parents and relatives, war crimes and songs,...

In this study Dulue Mbachu examines Nigeria's place in global news flow, using foreign news reporting by two Lagos newspapers to illustrate the dependence of local news media on Western news organizations for knowledge of what happens in the rest of the world. It shows that foreign news coverage depends largely on reporting provided by leading Western news agencies. The study found that much of the foreign news was about the United States and leading Western European countries. Even when Nigerian newspapers covered their immediate region of Africa and other non-Western parts of the world, the...