18th February: Today in Nigeria history, over 1000 soldiers raided Fela Kuti’s home, threw 78-year-old mother off window; other events
History is a jumble of accidents, blunders, surprises, and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, according to historian Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998), but if we are to record it at all, we must impose some order onto it.…