It sounds very much like an
apocryphal tale. But it is true that the joke is once again on the Nigerian
society. What I am saying is that Nigeria
They are going to join millions of
talented Nigerian intellectuals, academics and professionals, who had been
driven out of our land by the harsh realities of our current existence. It is
not a matter of profound argument or intellectual debate to say that the death
of the Nigerian middle class due to equivocation and compromise has long been
awaited. Yet, implicit in the very meaning of compromise as a means of
harmonizing the best features of opposing values is an element of tension.
