Mark Odwyer

For a young country, Nigeria has an acute sense of history and its President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has a sense of destiny. In 1979 he became the first Nigerian ruler to hand over power to an elected civilian leader. In May 2007, he will be the first elected civilian president to hand over to another. The elections should mark the end of a long era of military dictatorship and clingy rulers.