Sojourn: Emeritus Professor V.A. Oyenuga's Biography

Emeritus Professor V.,A Oyenuga's short biography is contained in over twelve international biographic journals. He is listed with Einstein as one of the ''TOP 500 SCIENTISTS OF THE 20th CENTURY.'' To his credit are about 210 articles in several local and international scientific journals, most of them reporting the results of his original research in Africa, Europe, and the United States of America.

Africa's first professor of agriculture, Nigeria's first emeritus professor, and a world-renowned nutritional biochemist is a Yoruba-man. It was mainly from Yoruba-land, Southwest Nigeria, that countless numbers of slaves were shipped to Haiti, the Caribbean, and the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Despite his intellectual sagacity, he is a very, very deeply religious Christian-a spiritual enigma thickly woven into a fascinating puzzle! His biography is a scintillating cornucopia of some local and international events before and during the twentieth century. It is also informative about Nigeria's past, present, and unpredictable immediate future.

The disparate North and South of this vast entity were jackknifed into a mere geographical adjective called Nigeria in 1914 by a very restless and industrious sadist, the British mercenary who was Nigeria's first governor-general in the early decades of the twentieth century: Baron Frederick Dealtry Lugard.

If the world wants to know why post-Colonial Nigeria has been adrift since the 1960s and the factors and actors responsible for her present location up a political creek without a paddle in the twenty-first century, this book provides some clues to the riddle of the odd dilemma facing the ''Biggest Black Nation on Earth,'' poor people, rich government, stupendously rich rulers, in a limitlessly endowed country where tragedy and comedy are Siamese twins!