Writing the wrong
Subtitle: journalism essays
By: Chidi Amuta
Publisher: Wilson & Weizmann Association Limited
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lagos, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1067
ISBN-13: 9789789332175
Subjects: Journalists; Politics and government
Description: "A first look at the book, Writing The Wrong, would send cold shivers down the spine of a lazy reader, but as huge and voluminous as the book looks, it contains major works of Chidi Amuta, a foremost Nigerian journalist who focused more on column writing for over 30 years. Amuta, a first class graduate of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, and currently Chief Executive Officer of Wilson & Weizmann Associates Ltd., a communications and public affairs consultancy firm based in Lagos, said he put the book together to preserve history. With over 1,000 pages, the book with different articles, is broken into 13 segments or themes, each having various sub- topics. These segments have topics including 'Issues In Governance', 'Challenge Of Leadership', 'Politics And National Development', 'Identity And Nationhood', 'Aspects of National Security', 'Economics And Livelihood', 'Conflict And Harmony, ' 'Ideas, Values & Symbols o Nationhood', 'Nigeria & the World, ' 'The Military In Politics', 'Contradictions Of Journalism', 'On Life & Living', 'Tributes and Salutations'. All the topics and sub-topics centre on governance, the Nigerian environment, challenges and, of course, possible solutions."--The News website: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2014/11/dr-chidi-amuta-to-present-his-book-writing-the-wrong.
Notes: "This collection of opinion articles in Nigerian newspapers covers an almost twenty-six year period from about 1986 ..."--Page xv.

Includes index.