Showing posts with label Latin American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latin American. Show all posts

Friday, May 24, 2024

Re-Thinking Nigeria: Beyond Myths, Illusions And Self-Deceit

 By Pat Utomi

Nigeria is a mess right now. A huge mess. Even the blind can see it. And the deaf can hear the cry of anguish of Nigeria’s children. Can the country be rescued? Possibly. But the myths, years of delusions of grandeur and criminal capture of the Nigerian state threaten the possibility.

*Utomi

Last week one of the great TV interviewers in Nigeria, Charles Aniagolu, asked me the big question. How did we get here?

I resisted the temptation of the immodest but frank answer:   go and read just about everything I have written in the last 40 years.