My Nigeria: Five Decades of IndependenceHis nineteenth century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in