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Reading List – On Nigeria
Eruptions of “A Peculiar Tragedy”
The disrespect shown Okigbo, Soyinka, Achebe, Clark and even Odia Ofeimun is particularly troubling. There is no compassion for the bravery, intellect and erudition of these men who wrote and taught several generations of youth even as they were youths themselves. Despite their flaws, these men deserve our gratitude, not ridicule.
Elite Obligation
So when a Nigerian entrepreneur says he cannot find 500 people to hire, my response is not “How dare you?” It is: “Congratulations. You have discovered the country you live in.” And having discovered it, the question becomes what you intend to do about it.”
A Review of the January 15, 1966 Coup Through the Eyes of a Participant, Major Adewale Ademoyega, and An Eyewitness, President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In truth, when you read Why We Struck, you come to realise that Ademoyega and his colleagues were actually childish and rather idealistic in their vision for Nigeria. What they planned was so utopian that it could only exist in heaven!
Some straight talk about Nigeria’s ‘Christian genocide’ controversy
Among Western—particularly American—commentators engaged in the “Christian genocide” debate, there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. In doing so, they repurpose a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians as a globalized version of their local grievances.
