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Under new management
Jan 13th 2000
From The Economist print edition
SO WROTE Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, in 1983. Between then and now, his gloomy book, The Trouble with Nigeria, has been perhaps the best short account available of how his native country worked—or rather, how it did not work. Ruled by soldiers for all but six years since 1966, Nigeria has suffered one civil war, six violent changes of government, and the continual theft and squandering of public funds by its leaders.…
