Dear all:
My eyes caught a sentence in Mr. Adeshina Afolayan's intervention that,I think, is so profound that it merits serious consideration: it shakes the roots of elite theory of ethnicity, while also making nonsense of class analysis. How can this be? I think Professor Olukotun's influential column in Nigeria should be devoted to this. If it is true, it is also the location of untapped power, the very space to rupture the state. Or am I exaggerating the significance of Afolayan's thesis?
"The informal sector of the economy is the burial ground of patriotism in Nigeria."
Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
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Austin, TX 78712-0220
USA
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