Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Theory of a Nigerian uprising

I doubt if age expectancy is the issue.  The case of Nigeria is "excessive" freedom which helps to diffuse tension.  Anyone can say anything about our leaders without any consequences. Former President Obasanjo was, in my view,  the most insulted President in Nigeria. In other climes such would not be tolerated. 

Of recent President Jonathan and our First lady have been insulted, abused and ridiculed and no arrests have been made. In those Arab countries such elastic freedom is not there. If suppression of freedom is held for too long the day the people revote it will be explosive. And that is what we are witnessing in Egypt and other Arab countries. 

What does life expectancy have to do with revolution in Egypt? You need to give us a scientific proof. 

SO

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On Jul 4, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth <abickersteth@googlemail.com> wrote:

My Theory is that not until Nigeria achieves a life expectancy of about 75 years would we have the kind of protests in Algeria, Libya,Syria,Egypt and Turkey. These countries suprisinly have better standards of living than Nigeria.In Turkey life expectancy is 73-9 years,Libya 77.88,Syria 75.84,Egypt 73.20 Algeria 73.0 Causes cited by the protestors in Algeria include unemployment, the lack of housing, food-price inflation, corruption, restrictions on freedom of speech and poor living conditions. We have all these and more in Nigeria where life expectancy is a mere 51.86 years. No Nigeria leader would love to be unseated by popular revolt and so what our leaders would do is keep life expectancy to a minimum. Thats my theory

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