Aminu Kano, Hausa-Fulani patrician turned revolutionary, was born into the struggle for Nigeria's independence. Because his life was so deeply entwined with the teeming events that led to Nigeria's independence, his story to a great extent becomes the story of his country. Through the medium of this engrossing and interpretive biography, Feinstein provides the reader with an intimate picture of the culture and the history of a part of the world about which so little has been known to most. Although Aminu Kano achieved his civilian status as one of Nigeria's first delegates to the UN and cabinet rank as Commissioner of Health, his importance as a revolutionary leader dates back to the early struggles for independence from Great Britain, and inevitable into the future...