The Nigerian Military is unique due to the fact that it was formed by invading foreign plunderers to subjugate the indegenious countries. It also included a significant number of ‘wanderers’ that had been displaced by a previous set of invading foreigners of Hausaland, the largest indegeneous country in the Nigerian State. Oddly, the Nigerian Army still bears the insignia of the invading foreign militia that subjugated the Hausa Country that straddles the Berlin created English owned Nigeria and the French owned Niger, and it (the Military) has been used to forcefully keep different natural and indegenious countries in the Nigerian State.

It has not been one-way traffic though, as men of the Military have, at various times, tried to break up the Nigerian State, and have also been the primary force in splintering it into various ‘federating’ units as its drifts along in its precarious history, pretending to mask the unitary structure it must maintain to survive, to the detriment and great harm of the indegenous countries and peoples trapped within its borders.

The 2nd volume of BrokeNation continues with its unique insight into Africa’s most populous and most problematic state. It highlights the creation of the Nigerian state as an unwilling collaboration of two sets of foreign invaders (which raises the possibility that the pioneer indigineous recruits of the Military may have viewed themselves as a liberating force), and how the objectives of the foreigners and the nature of the collaboration has changed over time; from plundering for resources in the early colonial era, to the assurance of millions of troops in case of a third World War, following India’s Independence after WW2.