By Sunny Awhefeada, Chinua Achebe was not just a reputable novelist, but he was a philosopher and thought leader who envisaged an experience that was in sharp contrast an alternative to our present ordeal. Although, he didn’t outline his vision for Nigeria in an outright manner, a perceptive reader could glean his idea of what a nation ought to be in many an Achebe treatise on our country. In his refreshing and thought provoking 1983 monograph, The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe ranged on the side of Nigerians to counter…
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News Feature: And We Survived 2022
By Sunny Awhefeada Nigeria remains a case study of the kind of paradox that can only be birthed by absurdism. Samuel Beckett despite his acclaimed genius would have found it hard put to envision the Nigerian condition in a dramatic sketch. I doubt if any human imagination has the capacity to imagine the scale and depth of the Nigerian condition. When the world celebrated the turn of the millennium in the year 2000, Nigeria was enmeshed in the crises of a hunted past from which it is yet to free…
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