Duty & Allegiance: Gowon’s memoirs, an exercise in self-justification! By Olu Fasan
- ✦The book starts with General Gowon’s removal from power in July 1975.
- General Gowon truly deserves commendation for writing such a historically significant book.
- In the Acknowledgements section of his recently published memoirs My Life of Duty & Allegiance, General Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state, writes: “Let me begin by saying that I was not anxious to document my memoirs, but the calls for me to do so kept coming.” Well, I am one of those who kept urging General Gowon to write his memoirs.
- The book starts with General Gowon’s removal from power in July 1975.
In the Acknowledgements section of his recently published memoirs My Life of Duty & Allegiance, General Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state, writes: “Let me begin by saying that I was not anxious to document my memoirs, but the calls for me to do so kept coming.” Well, I am one of those...
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General Gowon truly deserves commendation for writing such a historically significant book.
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In the Acknowledgements section of his recently published memoirs My Life of Duty & Allegiance, General Yakubu Gowon, a former military head of state, writes: “Let me begin by saying that I was not anxious to document my memoirs, but the calls for me to do so kept coming.” Well, I am one of those who kept urging General Gowon to write his memoirs.
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I did so in three interventions in this column, the last of which, in March last year, was daringly titled “A plea to General Gowon: Sir, write your memoir before you die!” (Vanguard, March 13, 2025).
