"Nigeria was never worth nursing to health"
What in the name of God is that supposed to mean?
Some Nigerians write of Nigeria is in terms of their own negatively idealised images where they are the visionaries, and the country, composed of so many humans, is one massive wasteland.
Meanwhile, Asians are working hard to develop economic bases within that country.
A rather odd perspective.
A more realistic perspective is to understand the country as demonstrating aspects of uneven positive and negative value, variable levels of development. Social units, including countries, are generally unevenly developed, some more than others.
It could also be helpful to compare the history of the country with that of a cross-section of nations to facilitate a long term of view of social growth.
Critics of Nigeria also need to keep in mind that social development is not always driven by govt. It is also driven by private activity. The Brtish Museum, for example was begun by an individual. Harvard is a private institition that began with one teacher in one classroom and one library, donated by John Harvard.
Those are examples of vision. Every country needs visionaries in order to grow, visionaries who contribute to building a sense of what the country is capable of.
Nigerians need to keep in mind that Nigeria is not composed of the President and politicians. It is composed by all Nigerians.
Nigerians also need to keep in mind the critical necessity of developing the global image of their nation and their continent, a task that would wash away centuries of negative branding of Africans.
No amount of condemnation of Nigeria will make that Nigerian a Caucasian or an Asian. To a large extent, racial stereotypes influence how various races and their individual members are viewed.
The greater the collective achievement of the race, the better the perception of individual members of that race.
Criticism can be valuable but when it is couched in terms of total denigration as those by Sonala Olumhense, then what role does it serve in inspiring a sense of positive possibility?
toyin
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
--"The moral of this story is that Ngozi—whoever the real Ngozi is—knows the truth, which is that Nigeria is "a tale told by an idiot," and manipulable by any dunce. She probably came back for the romance of it all last year, but has since then unveiled herself as being neither whiz-kid nor Queen Amina. In Abuja, she blended with the incompetence, the malfeasance, and the insincerity. The World Bank presidency is certainly no more than instant recognition, for her, that it is time to separate the goats from the (e)scapegoats.And so, I say, go, Ngo, go. Nigeria was never worth nursing to health, and in nobody can say you didn't spend a few Naira's worth of patriotism. So, shake the sands off your feet, for you have better things to do. Let Nigeria, and all those who believed Nigeria needed you here, watch you swagger into the distance.Sooner or later, they will understand Washington needs you much more than Abuja or Yola or Sapele. And oh, don't bother to switch off the light; it was never on."- Sonala OlumhenseEnjoy...
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