…while the colonialists may have been “culpable” for creating the country that we call Nigeria without consulting us, the task of forging a nation out of this colonial invention, rests squarely in our hands. And this task must progress from a deliberate effort to remobilise and re-interpret our history, especially our pre-colonial history. If we take a sociological look, we will see clearly that we did not arrive here by chance or as mere products of colonial misadventure.
I, like many of our compatriots, often ask the question about how best we should approach the challenge of nation-building that ails Nigeria. There are those of us who think the problem with Nigeria is its size, some others think it is the many ethnic interests conflating one another for domination. Others think it is all about bad leadership, while others believe it is the Constitution.
There are those who blame poverty as the issue, while some Pan-Africanists believe colonialism, foreign…