Economic Sectors – Not Complementary: Nigeria No agreement today, no agreement tomorrow – Fela Kuti Capable societies are those that have enforceable institutions of public value, while incapable societies lack them at national and local levels. Such nations are mainly in the Global North. It is easy to identify nations…
Tag: Claude Ake
Nigeria in Pieces
When Sir James Goldsmith in his book, The Trap, predicted in the mid-1990s that the nation called Nigeria will disintegrate in a similar manner to how Yugoslavia did, many Nigerian intellectuals dismissed it but with tacit concerns. They and many more were far more certain of the, reality or illusion,…
Corruption
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail
Nigeria was Designed to Ever Fail Nigeria’s failing as a nation is not the work of God. Nigerian political economist Claude Ake, with conviction, said there was never any design for Nigeria or Africa to be successful as modern societies. Not in economic or political senses. So many scoffed at…
Musings
Origins of an Opintar
Origins of an Opintar “Birds got something to teach us all; About being free, yeah; Be no rain… Be no rain…” – Gil Scott-Heron, from the lyrics, I Think I’ll Call It Morning I proclaim myself an Opintar sometimes. Opinterity is the closest I know to freedom and joy. It is part…
Corruption
The Ontology of the African IV: The Antinomy
The Ontology of the African IV: The Antinomy The claim to being knowledgeable and intelligent as well as acting in denial of knowledge and intelligence, simultaneously, is as Antinomy of an unusual kind. Knowledge is power only when it is usefully and unarguably applied. Is knowledge power to the African?…
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