Tuesday, August 31, 2010

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Growing Old in a Country Eternally Young

"Nigeria at 50 is nothing but "Oke wie aji o buru akakpo oke" (The rat that renews its hair becomes a midget rat). It will never grow up or grow older. It is satisfied with being akakpo oke! Even when it is 2000 years old as akakpo oke, it will still prefer playing in the sand like a toddler, asking to be given more time to grow up. As a country that prefers to be eternally young, why would it bother to have laws or policies that help to ensure that the rights of elderly are not violated?"

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Columns/5612956-184/story.csp

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Obododimma Oha
http://udude.wordpress.com/

Dept. of English
University of Ibadan
Nigeria

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Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan

Phone: +234 803 333 1330;
            +234 805 350 6604;
            +234 808 264 8060.


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