Obasanjo autobiography my watch

My Watch

During his watch, a watchman has no sleep and no respite.” – Olusegun Obasanjo Following in the steps of his previous memoirs, My Command and Not My Will, Olusegun Obasanjo’s My Watch is more than the story of the Obasanjo presidency told by the man himself. It is a memoir of a lifetime spent in service to country, of a man who has been destined with the watch, with the vigilance, with the responsibility to his people to speak up and speak out. My Watch spans large expanses of time, from the pre-colonial Owu history, to early Abeokuta and the last throes of an independent city state at turn-of-the-century colonial Nigeria, to the early life of its author, his civil war experience, his stewardship of the transitional government of 1976-1979, the interregnum, his second appearance on the national scene as a civilian president on Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999, the completion of the first civilian-civilian transfer of government in Nigeria’s history that inaugurated the Yar’Adua presidency and signalled the end of Obasanjo’

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Books by Olusegun Obasanjo

My Watch Volume 1: Early Life and Military
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3.83 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2015
My Watch Volume 2: Political and Public Affairs
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3.88 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2015
My Command
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3.67 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions
My Watch Volume 3: Now and Then
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3.98 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2015
Nzeogwu
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4.11 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
The Thabo Mbeki I know
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4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2016
Making Africa Work: A Handbook
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3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — 5 editions
This animal called man
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3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia
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3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions
Not my will
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
Forging a Compact in U.S.-African Relations: The Fi

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