THE FORMATIVE YEARS: His Cultural and Historical Roots; Formal Education: The British and American Alternatives; Azikiwe's Intellectual Origins; Azikiwe's Political Ideas: The Dream of the African Revolution; PAN-AFRICANISM AND AFRICAN NATIONALISM: Zik and the Pan-Africanist Movement; Rejection of Socialism; The Second World War; The West African Experience; Azikiwe and Nkrumah; NATION-BUILDING IN NIGERIA: Nigerian Nationalism: Crises of Ideas and Strategy; The NCNC and Nigerian Realities; Regional Premiership: A Test of Political Leadership; Governor-Generalship and the Presidency; Azikiwe and the Nigerian Civil War; DYNAMICS OF THE AFRICAN REVOLUTION: African Political Economy Since Independence; Neo-Colonialism in Theory and Practice; Military Rule and the African Revolution; Structural Adjustment and the African Reconstruction; Impediments to the African Revolution;