Banji Ojewale
Owing to the
prevalent situation in Nigeria,
I am being asked to repeat the following article with slight additions to
reflect the political and socio-economic circumstances on the ground. We
certainly need the intervention of a Higher Force to guide us as we pass
through this period.
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The famous French writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States of America in the first half of
the 19th century and returned with reports of how great America had
become not too long after it had emerged from its War of Independence and
passed through the teething problems of nation-building. His extensive tour led
him to probe the source of this eminence.
When Tocqueville had undertaken an
arduous search, he wrote: “I sought for the
greatness of the United
States in her commodious harbors, her ample
rivers, her fertile fields and boundless forests and it was not there. I sought
for it in her rich higher learning and it was not there. I looked for it in her
democratic congress and her matchless constitution and it was not there. Not
until I went to the churches of America
did I understand the secret of her genius and power”.
