Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Clarion Call

Please do not bring Nigeria's political scientists and other intellectuals together in an effort to find solutions to the country's multifarious development problems. If you really want to attack these problems and do so effectively and fully, bring together the real experts, the masses--the poor, the historically marginalized and deprived (women, those residing on the urban periphery), rural inhabitants, and the various ethnic and religious minorities). Real development is bottom-up, participatory, and inclusive and not top-down.

Stay well. John

JOHN MUKUM MBAKU, ESQ.
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>>> Peter Amobi <pamogu@gmail.com> 01/08/13 7:17 AM >>>
Sometimes, I wonder if the problem with Nigeria has gone beyond all
political theories and philosophies. Or are Political Scientist across
the country in slumber? Can't we make instructive inputs in this mess?
Somebody is already laughing at me. How many Political Scientist have
ever served as even governor of a state in Nigeria? If there are what
is/was their performance? I am convinced that we can form a forum that
could bring the best of brains together (think-thank) for
positive/sustainable development in our country even without holding
leadership positions. I thus, call on all Political Scientists across
Nigeria to come under a particular umbrella and search for dependable
solutions to the problems with Nigeria. NPSA may not have served us
very well in this direction.

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Amobi P. Chiamogu
Special Assistant to the Rector and Lecturer, Department of Public
Administration
Federal Polytechnic, Oko
Anambra State - Nigeria
+2348034306261, +2348123232658
pchiamogu@yahoo.com, panomanikz@yahoo.com

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