Nigeria After the Nightmare/I is an in-depth look into the Nigerian experience, explaining what went wrong during the countryOs thirty years of dictatorship. The book describes Nigeria's problems including oil, corruption, and dictatorship, but also provides a way for Nigeria to recover and become a leading democratic state.

"The subtitle of his highly informative and insightful volume - Dancing on the Brink - could not be more apt....Ambassador Campbell's main message is that we cannot continue to take for granted that Nigeria will always manage to pull back from the precipice. There are all sorts of grim signs of increasing political decay, corrupt governance, and no future for the millions of young Nigerians coming on to the labor market. Campbell is telling us that if nothing is done to turn Nigeria around, we may witness a slow descent into tragedy." - American Foreign Policy Interests