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The decades of the 1960s marked the beginning of the increasing political independence of most African States. Since the attainment of political independent and the formal inauguration governance by various African citizens, the vast African continent has been confronted with two major difficulties and challenges. These have to do with the twin problems of nation building and development. These twin problems have received different solutions, responses and approaches by various State-men and actors in different African States. Given the different and individual responses attempted by different African States, various outcomes have been recorded. However, the effectiveness of all these approaches to problems of nation building and socio economic development has been greatly reduced either owing to the weakness of individual States approaches but more as a result of the absence of a collective alternative. This fact explains the burning need for a collective and purposive course of action.
About the author
Abdu Salisu Balarabe hails from Sabonlayi Tafiyau, Pambegua District, Kubau Local Government, and Kaduna State, Nigeria. Born in 1964. He obtained B.A History and Masters in International Affairs and Diplomacy respectively from A B U Zaria. He is Currently a Principal Lecturer in Nuhu Bamalli polytechnic Zaria.
Summary
Augustine, sinner and saint, the celebrated theologian who served as bishop of ... Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in ... 430 C.E., is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the western world. Augustine: A New Biography tells the story of Augustine from the vantage point of Hippo, where he spent almost forty years as priest and bishop. During Augustine's post-Confessions years he became prominent as a churchman, politician, and writer, and James J. O'Donnell looks back at the events in the Confessions from this period in Augustine's life.
Much of Augustine's writing consists of sermons and letters rich in vivid primary material about the events of his time. Prosperous men converting to Christianity to get ahead, priests covering up their sexual and financial peccadilloes, generals playing coldly calculated games of Roman barbarian geopolitics -- these are the figures who stand out in Augustine's world and who populate O'Donnell's intriguing portrait set against a background of the battle over the future of Christianity. This book reveals much of what Augustine didn't confess.
