A Pipe Dream?… The Nigerian Mind of the Future
When I was a child and Obasanjo was President in his 30s they said “children are the leaders of tomorrow.” I had a child in my thirties and Obasanjo was President. What happened to tomorrow???
The young shall, nay, the young have GROWN but the old must GO! Otherwise the Nigerian mind shall wither until all our youth become Shakira, Shakira and other poetic and gyrating talents but never leaders.
Power never relinquishes without demand, someone once said. It never has and never will. We must ask our misleaders and misrulers to kindly take their seats and usher them out peacefully otherwise they will drive us to intellectual extinction in addition to our political irrelevance.
If you want to see how the world sees the Nigerian mind, look at the story below. No one from Africa has said a word because we do not have evidence to establish otherwise, from our own deeds.
Watson, 79, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York announced his departure a week after the lab suspended him. He was chancellor of the institution, and his retirement took effect immediately.
In his statement Thursday, Watson said that because of his age, his retirement was “more than overdue. The circumstances in which this transfer is occurring, however, are not those which I could ever have anticipated or desired.”
Watson, who has a long history of making provocative statements, ran into trouble last week for remarks he made in the Sunday Times Magazine of London. A profile quoted him as saying that he’s “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really.”
He said that while he hopes everyone is equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.” He also said people should not be discriminated against on the basis of color, because “there are many people of color who are very talented.”
Watson later apologized. But by then, London’s Science Museum had canceled a sold-out lecture Watson was to give there, and London’s mayor had branded the comments “racist propaganda.”
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Tony - Nigerian Entrepreneur said,
June 24, 2008 at 3:56 pm
It is a dream that will eventually come to pass. Yes, it may tarry for long, but eventually it will come to pass, that those who have the best of mind, intellingent and zealous for the well-being of Nigeria will rule this land.
It is true but quite pathetic, that those who are unable to rule their own household are the ones occupying the corridors of power and monopolising the resources of this land for personal gains.
But it is just a matter of time. It may not happen in this generation, but I know it will eventually happen. The thief will not reign for ever.