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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is a Nigerian political scientist and historian, and director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Senegal. Among his books are African Literature in Defence of History: An Essay on Chinua Achebe (Michigan State University Press, 2001) and Issues in Nigerian Politics Since the Fall of the Second Republic 1984-1990 (Edwin Mellen press, 1992).

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