INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS "Rich . . . fascinating." —The New York Times Book Review "A master of eyewitness description and of the telling interview, [Maier] has unearthed Africa's hidden heroes and heroines." —Financial Times ...

This House Has Fallen is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation.

Angola's civil war was the longest and bloodiest in Africa.

Nigeria's leaders have tended to elect themselves, by bullet and not ballot, with military coup following military coup.

A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation