Two publications seem to have totally disappeared from circulation. While one is titled Balaji Akinyemi Seagull: The Perception of Others, the name of the second is not even clear anymore beyond that it is the outcome of a In a two-day seminar in 1992 on the mass media, national security and the law or something of that nature. It was put together by the Concord Press of Nigeria, (CPN) as well as the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA).
No search machines or modern technology has produced good cover images of them, the only one available being so minuscule. That is probably not surprising because they were all produced before the internet revolution.
In the case of the proceedings of the Concord Press of Nigeria seminar, it has a chapter containing the late Prof Claude Ake’s statement at the occasion in which he was a major speaker.
Online check shows that many are searching for the materials. It is not clear why but it might not be unconnected with reading list needs of university teachers teaching Nigerian foreign policy in particular.
The assumption is that some good Samaritan, especially those working in Concord Press at the time, might be able to oblige a (photo) copy just as students and legatees of Prof Bolaji Akinyemi might also be able to do that, particularly those still at the NIIA.
It is not uncommon for certain books published years back to emerge very central at certain different point in time, depending on paradigm shifts and epistemological standpoints.
