Nigeria's journey as a self-governing nation clocks 63 years today. But we cannot help asking, what is the destination? Where are we headed as a nation? What is the point of our nationhood?
And so, then, sixty-three years into national independence, the question remains: why are we here? What's the point of it all? Are we to be defined as the giant of Africa, politically, economically and culturally? Are we to be known as the shining example of democracy on a continental soil blighted by demagogic autocracy left, right and centre? Or are we to be the torch bearers of the black race, the heart not just of Africa but of all that is African at home and in the...
And we cannot but wonder how and why we all find ourselves where we are. At independence in 1960, Nigeria was more than just a newborn country. It had a civil service where the traditions of merit, probity and service still held sway. It had a university system that would, in the 1970s, become the pride of the Commonwealth; its armed forces already were.
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