NIGERIA’S FUTURE: A Conversation with Nimi Wariboko (Part 2)
A PODCAST SERIES FROM THE TOYIN FALOLA INTERVIEWS
In this episode, Professor Nimi Wariboko reflected on Nigeria, Nigerians and the future ahead of Nigeria. A Conversation hosted by Mr. Obinna Akahara, reviews the guest’s perception on Nigeria, which triggered a title for the interview: “THE NIGERIA’S FUTURE”. Professor Wariboko defined the case of Nigeria as “a car crash, where people want to drive pass, but they cannot; they want to look and they don’t want to look at the same time.” Although he is very optimistic about Africa’s development, but Nigeria has not woken up just yet.
He further revealed that many of his literary works have been for the future generations. According to him, “if you think you are only working for Nigeria of today, you will die of hopelessness.” Wariboko’s writings are not for those that are alive alone today, even for the future generations who may get their inspiration from some of his works, to push the country headfirst and create a strategy to implement them.
Professor Nimi Wariboko admitted that Nigeria’s readiness for restructuring has a long way to go on the populace’s question: “when will Nigeria be better?” Nigeria’s problems are much, but Wariboko does not think they are unsolvable!
Professor Wariboko recently added to his name two new books, released in the month of October, 2020; titled: The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street and The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide
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Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, United States, and he is a globally renowned scholar of economic ethics, social ethics, philosophy, African Christianity, and Pentecostal studies. For years, he worked as a strategy consultant to top investment banks in the world when he worked on Wall Street, New York City. Before going over to New York he was a banker in Lagos. At one time in his life in Lagos he worked as journalist and editor in three news organizations, including the now defunct Concord Newspapers owned by Chief Moshood K. Abiola. Though today he counts himself as an academic, he still acts as a management consultant to governments and corporations. Wariboko has demonstrated uncommon brilliance and excellence in all his chosen careers.
He is the author of 20 books and co-editor of six—and has published a vast number of essays in academic journals. Let me capture—at least, minimally and quickly— something about the incredible wide range of his thoughts. His first and second books published in 1993 and 1994 were on accounting (financial statement analysis) and on valuation of banks (corporate finance). His most recent two books—his nineteenth and twentieth published in 2020—are on the inherent imbalances of capitalist economies and the global financial systems, and on the epistemological orientation of Pentecostals. In between these poles, he has published in areas such as economic history, anthropology, demographics, political theory, and psychoanalysis, just to name a few. He has a transdisciplinary bent of mind.
Professor Wariboko is regarded as one of the most original and creative thinkers in the world today. He has the rare ability to work in many different fields and to be acclaimed as a leading scholar in all the fields that he works in. His scholarship focuses on economic ethics, ethics of the global monetary and financial systems, the intersection of business and religion, economic development, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and social theory.
He holds a BSc (economics, first class honors), MBA (finance and accounting), and PhD (ethics, with specialization in economic ethics, summa cum laude).
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