Ikhide's essay is best understood as entertainment, laced with unsubstantiable fiction mixed with fact.
-- I'm not bothering to read the full essay.
I doubt if it will have much of value.
It becomes a form of entertainment in his characterisation of the visual images of the ASUU leadership.
I really enjoyed the sheer fun of that.
It becomes a mean kind of imagined reality when he starts invoking First Class tickets abroad and schooling abroad as the norm for wards for children of Nigerian academics.
Where would they get the money from?
How much are they paid?
The fees in England, at least, for foreign students are more than double those for home students.
For a postgraduate course you are looking at £9 a year and above.
I know one Nigerian academic who has a child doing a postgraduate course in England after completing her first degree in Nigeria, but this person lives both on their salary and on a consistent stream of fellowships from the West.
Is it the claim that they are studying in countries where it is cheaper?
I know one academic whose child is is studying in an African country after studying in Nigeria but also know another who did all his studies in Nigeria.
What is the percentage of Nigerian academics whose children study outside Nigeria?
Is any research on the subject being referenced by the writer?
Why should he?
It is fashionable to broadcast one's moral authority by spitting on Nigeria, using its inadequacies as basis for absolute condemnation.
Living in a country built on some of the worst brutalities in history, as you enjoy the spoils of such blood wealth makes it easier to cast the stream of spittle in a forceful arc so it will land more readily on the struggling place from where you escaped to civilisation, arriving at a time when the bulk of the founding horrors have been distilled for their value and the booty shared in a way that you too can benefit from.
A sense of proportion is unhelpful in such a necessity of self righteousness. .
The essay becomes fact when it references genuine claims about the need for ASUU to police its members, such as the Farouk essay.
The essay becomes farce in stretching the Farouk essay into a parody of itself.
I used to get excited about such ultimately funny ways of addressing the challenges of Nigerian education but why bother about the untuned squeaking of birds trying to comment on what is beyond their will to grasp?
For serious discussions of this subject, anyone who is interested could go to the
Nigerian Biomedical and Life Sciences Yahoo group, in particular, where various sides of the subject have been dedicatedly trashed,
and Yanarewa and Raariga Yahoo groups.
thanks
toyin
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Femi Segun <soloruntoba@gmail.com> Sep 21 01:31PM -0700
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