This is an unpremeditated book. It has its origin in an
observation on rail transport in Nigeria which occupied a paragraph in my previous book, reproduced here at the start of Chapter 4. One critic objected to that paragraph because, as he charitably expressed himself, "there mus be a lot of assumptions hidden there somewhere." After while I decided to pursue these assumptions into their hi expedition which lasted the full year that I had planned to spend in leisurely meditation at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.