Looking back from the Future provides an imagined perspective looking back from an unspecified
\ntime in the future, on significant events in the eras that have passed. Onitsha today is a leading
\nIgbo and Nigerian city on the banks of the River Niger. In the envisaged future it is a major city in
\nwhat has become a \u2018World of Homelands.\u2019 The defining feature dividing early and later eras is:
\n\u2018rooted ethic.\u2019 In the early eras the \u2018Ethic of Darkness\u2019 (with attendant attributes of
\nexclusion\/division\/acquisition) is dominant. In the later eras the \u2018Ethic of Light\u2019 (with attendant
\nattributes of realization\/actuation\/civil persuasion\/inclusion) is dominant. Looking Back explores
\nprospects offered by the \u2018transformational\u2019 properties of the computer, the internet and the world
\nof cybernetics. It suggests possibilities for movement out of Darkness, into sustained Light, and on
\ntowards establishment of the Civil Commons, throughout what is envisaged as a World of
\nHomelands\u2019\u2014the socio-ethno\/political units that have replaced States and most Nations.<\/p>\n
Professor Michael Vickers, historian and writer with a range of scholarly, literary and journalistic
\ncontributions over the past fifty years, has given much of his mind and heart to the land and folk of
\nNigeria; and in more recent years to projecting their path, along with all Africa folk, to what he
\nperceives as the Horizon Future. Recipient of the Distinguished Academic Award (2012) from the
\nUniversity of Ibadan, he has taught and conducted research at the University of Ife (now Obafemi
\nAwolowo University) Nigeria, and other universities in America, Canada and UK. He is author of
\nseveral acclaimed books, including most recently, On Wings of Light (2015), and Bright Beams in
\nDark Shadow (2017); the principal themes of which derived from this current work, Looking Back
\nfrom the Future, in its original (2011) form. He holds a doctorate in Political Science and West
\nAfrican Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK, and is Emeritus Director of Parliamentary
\nand Public Affairs, The Hillfield Agency (UK).<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-1-943533-34-3 \u0399 Published 2018 \u0399 Pan-African University Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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