Muhammadu Buhari: the Nigerian Legacy Series (2015-2023)

Muhammadu Buhari: the Nigerian Legacy Series (2015-2023)

Name: Muhammadu Buhari: the Nigerian Legacy Series (2015-2023)
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This five-volume compendium is a comprehensive and definitive historical account of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. It is neither a commissioned, nor a government-solicited, nor a government-censored work. It is a self-motivated initiative of the editor and represents one citizen’s determined desire to chronicle for posterity the stewardship of one of Nigeria’s most enigmatic public personalities, Muhammadu Buhari, over a period of eight years.

The primary focus of the study is on the administration of President Buhari from 2015 to 2023, but it begins with a miniaturised biography of the man as background to the five-volume compendium. It goes back in time to his formative years as a young military officer through to his first appearance as head of state during the military era, and subsequent forays into politics under a democratic climate between 1999 and 2023.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s style, which influenced his administration greatly, is his natural shyness and reticence to publicity. Thus, the administration that he led will be remembered, among other things, as one that sang quite little about its achievements while in office. The reasons for this reluctance to self-proclamation include not only the president’s reserved nature but also the huge, overwhelming nature of the problems inherited by the administration, and the equally huge and larger-than-life expectations of the citizens on what a Buhari government could do. Solving these problems continued for the greater part of the administration’s life, and was compounded by economic recessions, the global COVID-19 pandemic that brought the entire world to a standstill, and other events like the Russia-Ukraine war that did huge damage to global economies, Nigeria’s included. So, there wasn’t much appropriate time and space to dwell on the things that were done by the administration.

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About the Author

Dr Udu Yakubu, a former university teacher, is a biographer, corporate historian, scholarly editor, and publisher. He started his working career as a journalist at The Guardian newspaper and later practised at The News/Tempo magazines in the heydays of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria in the 1990s.

He had a university career that spanned over fifteen years of research, teaching, publishing, and management responsibilities at the Olabisi Onabanjo University and the University of Lagos, two institutions from where he earned his degrees in English. He was a visiting fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, and a two-time heritage management consultant to the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York, among others. For over a decade, he served as Executive Director at the African Cultural Institute, Lagos, and facilitated major national and international conferences, publications and projects.

Udu founded the Journal of Cultural Studies in 1999 and served as its substantive scholarly editor until 2010. He also served for four years as scholarly editor of Gege: Ogun Studies in English.

He was Secretary to the Steering Committee that facilitated the establishment of the Association of African Scholarly Editors (AASE) based in Kampala, Uganda in 2004. He distinguished himself as a scholarly editor through a direct active support of the career development of over three hundred university professors in Africa, Europe and North America.

He is the author of numerous scholarly papers and over a dozen books and biographies. He founded and currently manages May Publishing Limited, a strategic research and book publishing firm.
With its excellent research-oriented and professionally articulated biographies, autobiographies, corporate histories, and scholarly literatures, it distinguishes itself in the documentation of knowledge and information that is essential to the high value-orientation and development of society.