Nigerian Independence

” For so long the state had been experienced as a foreign imposition that the people could not simply internalise its values as the sun dawned on October 1^st 1960 and they were bequeathed an irrelevant cluster of British theories, models and values with which to make sense of their political freedom. “ 

I’m doing an essay on Nigeria at the moment, and found this on my computer. It was taken at the Durbah in Maiduguri to celebrate Eid El-Fitr in 2009. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office currently advise against all travel to Borno State.