Explains how each director of Central Intelligence sought to fulfill his "community" role, that of enhancing the cooperation among the many parts of the nation’s intelligence community under his leadership. Explores that the nation’s leaders expected of directors and how those holding the responsibility attempted to carry it out.

The Party Machine amplifies critical function of political parties as stabilising platform required to water the garden of democracy. Perpetual education is crucial to oiling the engine of ideologically committed political party. Progressively inclined party should be a breeding ground for recruiting transformational, interactional, innovative, and character-based leaders. Strategic planning and action research will go a long way in identifying and solving multifarious problems of the people in the republic. The work discountenances the unprincipled defections of party members to other party simply because of lack of integrity and ideological commitment.

For over two centuries, Western scholars have discussed African philosophy and culture, often in disparaging, condescending terms, and always from an alien European perspective. Many Africans now share this perspective, having been trained in the western, empirical tradition. Makinde argues that, particularly in view of the costs and failings of western style culture, Africans must now mold their own modern culture by blending useful western practices with valuable indigenous African elements. Specifically, Makinde demonstrates the potential for the development of African philosophy and even African traditional medicine. Following the lead of a number of countries with government policies of incorporating indigenous medicine with orthodox Western medicine, Makinde argues that traditional African practices should be taken seriously, both medically and scientifically. Further, he charges African scholars with the responsibility of investigating these and other elements of traditional African culture in order to dispel their mystery and secrecy through modern research and useful publications.

This book investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria.