Prof Luc Reychler Emeritus Professor of International Relations Faculty of Social Sciences

"Olufemi Oluniyi touches the deeper layers of the conflict in Northern Nigeria: the preferential treatment by the British colonial regime of Islam and the discriminatory treatment of indigenous Christians. To resolve the conflicts in the North, religious dialogue is not enough. He urges the building of bridges to the past. Both Great Britain and the Muslim community should apologize for sowing the seeds of the conflict. This recipe can be part of the solution when it also addresses the Christian support of the British Empire and when all the Nigerian religious leaders join, here and now, in the building of bridges to the future and help to construct a secure, affluent and bright country in which nobody is exposed anymore to the terrorism of poverty."