Bright Beams in Dark Shadow by Michael Vickers

Description

Starting as a simple compilation of selected lifetime writings, Bright Beams in Dark
Shadow evolves into a personal testimony with a thrusting thematic thread; that of the ongoing
battle of an ever-challenging Light, with an entrenched and dominant Darkness. Underlying
emphasis is given to the fast-accelerating shift in Life Principles and Life Values from our planet’s
world of the parochial, into a modern world of emergent universals of inclusion and engagement.
The profound and transformative role of cybernetics, recognised and understood by few,
emerges as the base platform from which all else in our unfolding future, follows. It is hoped this
lengthy selection of odes, articles, critiques and commentaries will provide for the reader a
powerful stimulant to a wide range of ponderings, queries and challenges at every level and
depth; and indeed on new, penetrating and provocative Perspectives on Light Emergent.

Professor Michael Vickers — Taught Political Science at the University of Ife (now Obafemi
Awolowo University) Nigeria; taught and conducted research at universities in America, Canada,
and the United Kingdom. Recipient of the Distinguished Academic Award (2012) from the
University of Ibadan, he is author of several acclaimed books, including Structure and Conflict in
Nigeria, 1960-65 (1973) with Ken Post, Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria (2000), and most
recently A Nation Betrayed—Nigeria and the 1957 Minorities Commission (2010), Phantom
Ship (2013), On Wings of Light—Reflections on Cybernetics, Africa and the Wider World (2015). He
holds a doctorate in Political Science and West African Studies from the University of Birmingham,
UK, and is Emeritus Director of Parliamentary and Public Affairs, The Hillfield Agency (UK).

ISBN: 978-1-943533-17-6 Ι Published 2017 | Pan-African University Press