Books
Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction. Our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means… This is a fundamental challenge we must overcome, for a nation or a country without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one. The book “Build Innovate and Grow: My Vision for Our Country”, transformation of policies, leadership and governance in Nigeria.
It recognises the importance of innovation and science in pushing the Nigerian economy into the 21st century, highlighting different sectors and systems in the country that are in desperate need of change and transformation.
The book explains the urgency of true diversification and economic independence that places Nigeria on a leadership role in the world market, while also asking that citizens should always demand accountability from our leaders, no matter the cost.
A rare and timely intervention from Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on development in Africa.
To many, Africa is the new frontier. As the West lies battered by financial crisis, Africa is seen as offering limitless opportunities for wealth creation in the march of globalization. But what is Africa to today’s Africans? Are its economies truly on the rise? And what is its likely future?
In this pioneering book, leading international strategist Kingsley Moghalu challenges conventional wisdoms about Africa’s quest for growth. Drawing on philosophy, economics and strategy, he ranges from capitalism to technological innovation, finance to foreign investment, and from human capital to world trade to offer a new vision of transformation. Ultimately he demonstrates how Africa’s progress in the twenty-first century will require nothing short of the reinvention of the African mindset.
“Africans seriously analyzing Africa’s opportunities are all too rare. Kingsley Moghalu writes with insight and authority.”
– Paul Collier
“Savvy… distinguished.”
– Mark Malloch-Brown
“Unique in the depth of its insight, the ambition of its scope, and the clarity of its argument. Kingsley Moghalu brings a remarkable intellect and his vast experience to this tour de force on Africa’s economic transformation. This is a truly weighty contribution to understanding Africa’s developmental dilemma and its quest for a more prosperous future.”
– Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
“Insightful and analytical . . . sheds instructive light on Africa’s position in the world. It is a testament to the palpable optimism that encompasses Africa while frankly addressing the myriad challenges that lie ahead for its economic transformation.”
– Shashi Tharoor
After a controversial war in which he was ousted and captured by United States forces, Saddam Hussein was arraigned before a war crimes tribunal. Slobodan Milosevic died midway through his contentious trial by an international war crimes tribunal at The Hague. Calls for intervention and war crimes trials for the massacres and rapes in Sudan’s Darfur region have been loud and clear, and the United States remains fiercely opposed to the permanent International Criminal Court. Are war crimes trials impartial, apolitical forums? Has international justice for war crimes become an entrenched aspect of globalization?
In Global Justice, Moghalu examines the phenomenon of war crimes trials from an unusual, political perspective—that of an “anarchical” international society. He argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, war crimes trials are neither motivated nor influenced solely by abstract notions of justice. Instead, war crimes trials are the product of the interplay of political forces that have led to an inevitable clash between globalization and sovereignty on the sensitive question of who should judge war criminals.
From Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm to the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, from the trials of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, and Charles Taylor to Belgium’s attempts to enforce the contested doctrine of “universal jurisdiction,” Moghalu renders a compelling tour de force of one of the most controversial subjects in world politics. He argues that, necessary though it was, international justice has run into a crisis of legitimacy. While international trials will remain a policy option, local or regional responses to mass atrocities will prove more durable.
In Rwanda’s Genocide, Kingsley Moghalu provides an engrossing account and analysis of the international political brinkmanship embedded in the quest for international justice for Rwanda’s genocide. He takes us behind the scenes to the political and strategic factors that shaped a path-breaking war crimes tribunal and demonstrates why the trials at Arusha, like Nuremberg, Tokyo, and the Hague, are more than just prosecutions of culprits, but also politics by other means.
This is the first serious book on the politics of justice for Rwanda’s genocide. Moghalu tells this gripping story with the authority of an insider, elegant and engaging writing, and intellectual mastery of the subject matter.
