Looking and waiting for a "Political Messiah." Maybe he or she is sitting somewhere and would appear at the annointed time. Yes, it is dangerous to reify social structures but it is also difficult to feel methodologically satisfied with analytically reducing the complex historical reality of a country, people and processes by focusing primarily on the wishes and caprice of individuals -- kind of voluntarism. At worse we need triangulation or mixed methods of data collection and analysis for a synthetic and holistic understanding. It is hard for me to engage in methodological reductionism.
Samuel
On Jan 20, 2018 10:29 PM, "Chidi Anthony Opara" <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
Was Buhari a new phenomenon in Nigerian politics in 2015? No! So, why the initial mystique? The indices of failure/incompetence were all there, some of us saw it coming, many simply got carried away by the massive propaganda, same reason that "supreme leader" had the crowd!--CAO.
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