Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Time to Negotiate Nigeria by Chido Onumah

This is the only move that can save Nigeria as a nation.The time is now and our political chieftains and followers should drop their selfish ideas( it is better to have what they have made, live with it than loose it all). If we do not heed this, sooner than later what many are thinking will not happen will eventually happen and the Nigerian nation might ended up in scattered nations- 3, 4 or 5 as it suits the situation and time by then. 

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Chido Onumah <conumah@hotmail.com> wrote:

Time to Negotiate Nigeria

There are three fundamental issues in the debate about negotiating Nigeria. The first is to understand that many, if not all, of the problems that assail us as a nation are rooted in the structure of the country. The second is that restructuring Nigeria through a process of negotiation is not a silver bullet or cure-all for our problems. And the third is to understand that Nigeria has always been negotiated, so there is nothing really new in the call to negotiate Nigeria.

 "In law as in politics, countries are defined by a population within bounded territories under a common sovereign. "Boundaries, howsoever defined, are, however, not facts of nature; they are artificial. They can be formed, re-formed, un-formed, negotiated and re-negotiated.

"Within one generation, for instance, the Soviet Empire collapsed into middling, hardly remarkable, entities; Yugoslavia disintegrated into a collection of warring states and statelets; Germany evolved into one country from two; Ethiopia went the other way, becoming two countries instead of one, (indeed, Menelik II had sold Djibouti to the French about 116 years ago to finance the modernisation of Addis Ababa); Sudan has similarly become two countries (in which further splintering cannot be ruled out) and the United Kingdom itself could be reduced to England and Wales in 2014 depending on the outcome of the proposed referendum on Scottish Independence.

Read more… http://www.chidoonumah.com/2013/08/time-to-negotiate-nigeria.html#more

 

 

Regards,
Chido Onumah
Coordinator, African Centre for Media & Information Literacy,
P.O.Box 6856, Wuse 11, Abuja, Nigeria
www.africmil.org
+234-7043202605

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