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The Life and Times of Mrs Evelyn Ene

An inspiring account of a life that thrived through the Biafra War.
This book was initially purchased for my mother. Curiosity caused me to flip the page and my husband and I were gripped to the very end.
It’s a fabulous account of a strong, courageous, resilient, industrious, God fearing woman who lived out the phrase “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”
A very inspiring, great historical and geographical introduction to life during Biafra. Narrated in such a way that you can picture being there.
Highly recommended for all generations.

ROS, Amazon (27/03/2021)

A Slave Ship Called Jesus

Dear Dele,
Having read ‘a slave ship’ I was very impressed how again it was so well researched and very well put together ((just finished this afternoon). This work included so many bits from Franklin, Tawney, Pain and Froude to name a few, (latter of which perhaps Coleman influenced you a bit).

The early Tudor to Jacobean and beyond was beautifully done in that it crystallised some of our early english history into a very clear summery. I recently read Robert Tombs, ‘The english and their history’ but on the death of Elizabeth I and the English civil war, with the Lord Protector et al, you have done a better job in explaining concisely exactly by the religious church forces of history behind it.

The uprisings of Haiti and Jamaica were also elegantly written and researched. Whilst of course I had already a passing knowledge, you managed to condense the narrative that makes it as a reader so easy to absorb. Toussaint L’Overture and Sam Sharpe are without doubt absolute heroes but are sadly not household names even in to today’s typical lay history reader.

The conclusion I felt had no hope and I felt profoundly depressed for the future of race relations. Yes, rightly the Bank of England and Lloyds removed paintings of prominent slavers. I personally questioned this at the time with the usual ‘one can’t remove history’, ‘it was a cruel legitimate lawful business at the time’ etc etc, but it was 400 years of horrific genocide. If the Bundesbank or Deutsch Bank for example had held paintings of prominent nazis, we wouldn’t hear the end of it and rightly so. Only time has dulled the senses of the evils of the African slave trade.

On a personal note, I would like to think John Coleman is up there with his cup of tea and straightened tie having read your book, grinning at you through his unkept whiskers at a masterpiece you have written. Well done.

I would like to thank you for my father’s dedication. It’s a very kind gesture and I shall forever treasure my copy. I owe a transfer which I will get round to you soon.
With best regards,
Pierre

A Fatherless People: The Secret Story of How the Nigerians Missed the Road to the Promised Land

This book provided a deeper understanding of how Nigeria came to be.

Having read the hardback version of the “Fatherless People” by Dele Ogun, I am now on the third listening of the Audio book and I am still finding out new things I missed the first 3 times.

As a Nigerian in diaspora, this book is giving me a deeper understanding of how Nigeria came to be. The book is a complete reference material on Nigeria; I will recommend the hardback version for your bookshelf, and the audio version is a nice companion for long car journeys and those quiet evenings. Dele Ogun’s voice was consistent throughout the 13-hour audio and it does capture the seriousness of the history.

It’s such a masterpiece and I congratulate Dele Ogun, for a job well done.
By Bonny Uba (29/11/2019)

“A Fatherless People”. I have to commend you for the awesome painstaking effort you must have mustered in preparing, writing and producing such a deep, well researched and comprehensive book – covering a complex (mis)governance/amalgamation of millions of West Africans over centuries. Great work from a thorough, brilliant and analytical thinker.

Just looking through the bibliography, endnotes and index, speaks volumes about the quality and quantity of research work carried out – truly delightful.

I personally learnt so much about our history and why a lot of things seem virtually impossible to resolve.

I certainly will be using it as a reference point in discussions and future write ups. I also look forward to many other books from you – I’m already reading “The Law the Lawyers & The Lawless”

The following piece stood out for me: …’Youths Earnestly Ask for Abacha’ was launched in Lagos… Another organisation, the National Council of Youth Associations organised a “Two Million Youth March” in Abuja in March 1998 in support of Abacha’ – I was in the UK during this time and therefore didn’t quite appreciate the level of decadence the country descended to. But there is just something so diabolical and savage about vast sways of people in that country- no honour, no morals, no scruples and no integrity. How could so many youths actively support such a savage brutal and murderous dictator?

Although I don’t totally agree with Wade’s theory about the effects of the industrial revolution on the social and ethical evolution of the West, one has to really wonder about what other factors continue to hinder every progressive effort over all these decades!

Is it still all about the Islamic Fulani hegemony or does the South too have its own demons of greed, selfishness, malice, avarice, covetousness, fearfulness, shortsightedness and laziness.

Why is it the recommendations of the committees seem to favour the North more than the south during National conference in 2014 under the chairmanship of Justice Idris Kutigi?

Why does the Fulani controlled North continue find it so easy to bully the rest of the country into submission.

Are the Southerners inherently a very weak people? Or do we simply lack the resolve to take the bull by the horns?

My Late father (Lt Col Victor Banjo) asked these same questions over 50 years ago with regards to the Yoruba Male particularly.

Lastly, I just thought I’d mention that my dad what actually arrested ostensibly for attempting the life of Ironsi – because he was armed during a prearranged meeting with Ironsi. He was not arrested for being involved in the January 1966 coup.

But great read ,I love your style of writing and your thoughtful analytical style, only a wise British trained lawyer could so easily decipher and exposed the duplicitous shenanigans of the British colonialists in such an obvious way.

Wonderful!!
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Your voice is amazing!
You really put on your british voice too lool
Its great
Can you make more audiobooks
On like african history
20th century
We need to hear more about the likes of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania
Africa Must Unite
Has no audiobook
27/08/2019
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Been listening to you over the last few days and catching things I missed in my two readings of the book
Tomi Davies, 31/08/2019
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It was great seeing you today. I’ve just downloaded and listened to the first chapter of your book and I am already hooked. The suggestion that the abolition of the slave trade was sought by the British to remove other countries’ ‘competitive advantage’ following their loss of control in North America is just too compelling to pass on. I especially enjoy the quotes of the politicians which brings you back to the time and makes it feel ‘real’. I look forward to my train journey tomorrow!
24/01/2020
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I have a few more chapters to go but I can safely commend Mr. Dele Ogun for a job very well done and articulated. His book is a link in a chain and I daresay that a lot of what he has written may not be fully appreciated except it is properly positioned in the chain of knowledge needed to free Nigeria and Africa by extension.
The chain of knowledge would include “The Souls of Black Folk” by W. E. B. Dubois, “The Mis-Education of the Negro” by Dr. Carter G. Woodson (they were the first and second African Americans to bag doctorates from Harvard). The next book would be “The Destruction of Black Civilization” sub-titled “Great issues of a race from 4,500 BC to 2000AD by Prof Chancellor Williams. Next on line is an audacious treatise, “The History of White People” by Prof Nell Irvin Painter an African American. Followed by “White Trash” authored by Nancy Isenberg and sub-titled “the 400 year old untold history of America …
The hotly debated “Willie Lynch Letters” of 1712 would be useful as well. The Romance of the Black River published 1930 authored by F. Deauville Walker. Another book would be the rather uninspiring “The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africs” of Frederick Lugard and a few other authors
Dele Ogun’s book is a link in this chain because it’s an African perspective that exposes the arcane intelligence behind the predator-prey narrative that sponsored the deterministic chaos that African nations define.
To appreciate how his book can inspire us to rescue Nigeria and redeem Africa in practical terms. I again recommend “The Five Thousand Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen. The strategic thought engaged by the founding fathers of America plus the influences of men like Cicero, Polybius, Locke Montesquie etc. I believe Mr. Oguns book has basically equipped us with what is needed to write the recovery program that will rescue Nigeria. We may need some more information available only in declassified colonial documents to build our program but my hopes are very high that this group can go beyond mere academic rhetoric to do the needful.
Rev Ladi Thompson, 17/02/2020
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Interesting reading.
I thought I knew something about Nigeria but wow you have opened my eyes.
Greek Cypriot, who has been doing business in Nigeria for a long time, 05/06/2020

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