Review without a view (II), by Abubakar Idris It's really enticing that man, in his natural quest and curiosity, wants to understand everything about all things – even though it's an obviously unattainable goal. Observing, reading, speculating, conspiring, discussing, studying, manipulating, theorising..., in answering an "if" question of history, man hardly provides a strictly wrong or right answer. This is simply because anything could be anything. Everything is just within the spectrum of possibility. What "if", for example, Nigeria was colonised by the Spaniards?; Is a question can be answered from...