“Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.”
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
