From my last post, I got a very detailed reply via e-mail from a friend. Waking up to that was such
an amazing thing, that I decided to write a follow up post with his comments.
I
say a very big thank you to all of you who follow my blog and come here to read
whatever it is I have to write. Please keep the comments coming, they make it
all worthwhile :-)
That was a very great piece by Ene and I thought I should
lend my thoughts to some points she raised. Yes, Nigeria just reached her
centenary year as an entity and quite frankly, many aspects of her nationhood
leaves a lot to be desired. However, there are many contributing factors to
this and I feel obliged to respond to two main issues: History and the state of
historical artefacts. I would not mention much about the economic aspect as
that can be an article on its own. What I may want to clear up is that Nigeria
was not referred to as a ‘giant of Africa’ because we had actually attained
that status. It was in recognition of its enormous POTENTIAL in terms of
population and material resources that gave us the moniker. We were just ‘work-in-progress’.
