Beautiful interview.
-- The interjection of pidgin is striking, as usual in Adesanmi's writing.
thanks for sharing
toyin
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
--In this interview with GBENGA ADENIJI, Professor of English, French, and African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, Pius Adesanmi, speaks about the challenges facing university education in Nigeria among other issues
As a student in UNILORIN before becoming a lecturer abroad, what were the challenges you noticed in Nigeria's school system which still exist today?Where does one begin? There were overcrowded hostels and lecture rooms, dilapidated infrastructure, libraries with no new books and zero subscription to world-class journals, underpaid and under-motivated lecturers, incessant aluta (students' protests), and police brutality. I do hope that the police have improved upon the standards of their brutality when quelling students' demonstrations. I recall one aluta we had in 1988, we picked up teargas canisters that the police had used and some of them had expiry dates all the way back to the early 1970s. I hope they no longer use expired tear gas on students these days.What do you think is the missing link in Nigerian university education?We have lost the university idea. A state governor wakes up, builds a gate in front of a secondary school in his village, adds a motto in Latin, and a new state university is born. Somebody lands in Aso Rock and a university is born in his village the following day. Somebody collects enormous tithes, buys a private jet, and the next emblem of his arrival in the crème de la crème of prosperity Pentecostal pastors is to start a university. A sitting Senate President finds sufficient time to tuck in the construction of his own private university. These things can happen only in a country where the university idea is dead.- IkhideStalk my blog at www.xokigbo.comFollow me on Twitter: @ikhideJoin me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
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