The Niger bridge at Onitsha is a single point of failure for the movement of goods between western Nigeria and the south-east, and everyone who uses it knows this. It has known it for fifty years.
On the eastern side is the Main Market, which is a city inside the city and is generally described as the largest in West Africa. That claim is impossible to verify and nobody in Onitsha is much interested in verifying it.

The pamphlets are collectors' items now, held in university libraries in three countries. They were written to be read once and thrown away, which is a fate their authors would probably have preferred to canonisation.




