Abstract
‘The Nigerian eagle must soar and the South African springbok gallop in sync, if
Africa is to be reborn’ (p. 249). With this sentence, Adekeye Adebajo concludes his
book. In a sense this sentence also retrospectively captures the mainly prescriptive
essence of The eagle and the springbok: essays on Nigeria and South Africa, a text set to
become one of the most important on this relationship, billed by Adebajo to be
‘Africa’s most indispensable’...