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
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