ADAKU: The Man Who Built a Nation

[Ostronia]

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Author's Note

Few times in the history of the world has a single man been responsible for the founding of an entire nation. Many will claim their nation's descent from a great and glorious founder, of course, but few will put aside patriotic mythology for historical fact. The careful study of history has shown that many legendary founders are just that—legends. This has made others cynical about their traditional heroes. They remove all human agency from the equation of human civilization and insist instead that the national identity subsists in nothing more in a complex web of social interactions, intricately (but not intentionally) woven by the forces foretold in political science, economics, sociology, group psychology and the other social sciences. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Great men can be found in history, even if they often ride tidal waves of human emotion. Historical fact shows that a few men have been able to direct these titanic forces so many times greater than themselves towards their own ends—and that is why they are justly remembered as great men.

The true story of a founding father can be found in an unlikely place less than a century before our own time. Ostronia, the second-poorest country in Nur, the third-poorest in the world, was founded not by its notorious Kalmachian colonial overlords, but by the man who led its independence as one nation from them. That man's name was Adaku, and in this biography I will explore his extraordinary life as one of history's few great men.

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Table of Contents

Author's Note

Chapter I: The Schoolboy

Chapter II: The Magistrate

Chapter III: The Activist

Chapter IV: The President