By Chidi Odinkalu
“If your
country is torn apart by war; if the economy is in crisis and if health-care is
non-existent, you are likely to be miserable.” Yuval Noah
Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, p. 34 (2016)
The end of the year is usually rich with delightful expectations for children and young people across the world. It offers a break from school to look forward to and lots of gifts to receive and exchange. It is not for nothing that it is also called a “season of goodwill”.
Prof Odinkalu
For Nigeria’s young people in the age of Muhammadu Buhari, however, it is anything but. Mind you, this was the generation that, deliberately deprived of a sense of historical record and reckoning based on it, powered Buhari to an improbable political resurrection in 2015. Six years later, they are paying with their blood and lots of it. It doesn’t bear recounting but maybe it does.
