This book relates the life experiences of a Nigerian engineer and retired university teacher who considers himself a member of the "wasted generation." Trained shortly after political independence in 1960, in hope of positive and specific contributions to national development but made redundant by lack of continuity, political focus, and globalization. Underdevelopment is a creeping process, backwardness a choice, resource poverty not a serious hindrance. The desire to belong in a world that drags you along is a most debilitating complex noted among some countries of Africa. Similar issues...