Prelude
IT was eight years ago that I delivered the short piece below as my acceptance speech for the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA). As I read it again in the process of readying up the delivery of my NNMA Winner’s Lecture in December 2022, I was forcibly struck by the fact that many of the points and issues raised in the acceptance speech are more poignant and more menacing now than they were in December 2014. A journey down memory lane has ended up asdéjà vu, an all too familiar plotline in the narrative of the Nigerian malaise. And so, this painfully rhetorical question:in the past eight years, which has really grown larger and more foreboding – the Nigerian oasis…
Source: Nigerian Tribune
