Professor Olukotun: What a year in review! Thanks for giving us a reminder of reasons we should never rest on our oars in hoping against hope for motherland. Those vicissitudes, consistent inconsistencies and the "corruption of anti-curroption," to borrow your cute neologism, have placed us right at the flat table, writing the history of a dashed hope of the fading year. Sad indeed. In January, we thought we had finally arrived with a government that called for accountability, but eleven months later, nothing seriously got accomplished as the nation chills in the shadow of an ailing general. IPOB dominated the news all year long. Sadly, neither did IPOD get its wish nor its opponents silence it; the in-house tussle did not help the movement either. With the year ending in fuel crisis, the hope is that the twelve months of 2017 have not combusted into painful conflagrations, where the proverbial son of the blacksmith dies trying to find the hoes to farm its own land. I hope, with ardent prayers, the Year 2018 would wake our nation up; it would buy us time; actually, it would redeem time we have so much lost; it would challenge us into action; it would move us into a new dispensation, a better one, that is; it would teach us, all of us - leaders, followers; elite, non-elite; young, old; never to forget the grace that has brought us safe thus far; never to forget those Chibok girls, the vast majority of who are still languishing in the world unknown.
Professor Olukotun: May your intellect continue to bring us hope and energize our resolve. Happy New Year to you as well.
On Thursday, December 28, 2017, 11:39:51 AM PST, ayo_olukotun via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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