An Adjusted Dream

Title: An Adjusted dream
Author: Udu Yakubu
Year of Publication: 2002
ISBN 978-153-102-9
Pages: 345+ xi

An Adjusted Dream is a story of the life of Chief Olu Akinkugbe. It is the story of the
dream for an academic life, one which had to be given up for another dream that
became the gain of a nation for half a century.
The book explores the experiences that have defined one of the most successful
entrepreneurial and business stories in Africa. It is both biography and history
because the life of Olu Akinkugbe has been largely synonymous with the economic
history of Nigeria since the decade before independence. There is probably no
Nigerian, who has sat on or chaired more corporate board meetings than Olu
Akinkugbe. The book can thus be appropriately termed a business biography.
In several chapters, the biography captures the life of Akinkugbe as the doyen of
modern pharmaceutical practice in Nigeria, the first Nigerian to serve as President of
a Chamber of Commerce, and as the definitive and recurrent decimal in the making
of a corporate Nigeria.