A Platter of Gold is an exciting, epic colonial biography of a nation. How did Nigeria come to be a nation? Over the course of fifty-four years, till the eve of Independence, eight colonial proconsul Governors for the British Empire pitched wit, passion and guile against under-celebrated, sometimes everyday Nigerians: Ahmadu Attahiru I, the Sokoto Caliph and his cavalry, who violently resisted British ouster and occupation, Eleko...