By Tony Eluemunor
What Nigeria is going through now, be it religious, ethnic, social, political and economic, national insecurity, uncontrolled militancy and banditry, all our national ills, were disasters that were clearly foretold in a major publication.
Next month will mark the 30th
anniversary of Robert D. Kaplan’s “THE
COMING ANARCHY – How scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease
are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet”.
Published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine in February 1994, it pretended to scrutinize the entire planet Earth, though it actually focused on West Africa – with Nigeria receiving a special attention which detailed out our problems and warned that things were about to get worse.
