RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Phillip Emeagwali's Fraudulent Activities Have Tainted the LSAT

Charlatanism, self-promotion, and self-aggrandizement are common elements in all human societies. They not right but they exist. To ask why "this society has allowed this culture to thrive" is to assume that this society is somehow different, and may be superior to other societies. Philip Emeagwali is only operating in a culture in which such frauds exist and pre-date him.

Personal choices of how to conduct oneself is just that - Personal. We Africans and especially Nigerians must stop this implicit and sometimes explicit habit of blaming Nigeria as a society for the flaws and foibles of individual Nigerians.

There are no flaws which we routinely ascribe to Nigeria that are not found in any other society. The scale may be different due to conditions of scarcity and underdevelopment, but corruption, crime, fraud and even manipulative ethnicity and sectionalism are not qualitatively different because of the scale in developing countries.

Individuals should be held responsible for their actions.

Ehiedu Iweriebor

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