Although Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s Memoir, My Story: My Vision, is a radiant involvement with acts of recollection (popularly called storytelling) and futuristic postulates for Nigeria to exit from its messy challenges, the text is artfully laced with artistic and cognitive aspects of serious literature. The central concern of the text is to encapsulate the leaches eating at the sole of Nigeria and the positive way forward.
Narrowly arrowed between instinct and construct, Ribadu writes in a sufficient tone of passion to indirectly challenge our collective senses of wisdom and curiosity as regards issues of corruption, governance, integrity and transparency.
The text is as, thematically as long as Nelson Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom. Just as the tripartite themes of personal courage, self-sacrifice and spirit of collective diligence radiate in Mandela’s, Ribadu, thematically preoccupies his with loyalty and honesty, integrity and discipline.
In his characteristic nature of…
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