There has been too much optimism invested in what is widely touted in Nigeria as the ‘dividends of democracy’ i.e. the benign and enabling outcomes of democracy. After 18 years of a return to democracy in Nigeria, the dividends of democracy on offer has only meant the military are no longer in government. The dividends have neither been delivered in the form of better leadership nor better governance. Unsurprisingly, the crisis of leadership in Nigeria cannot be solved by democracy as a system all by itself. In fact, democracy can fail societies terribly. (more…)
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How Democracy Fails Nigeria
Posted: June 10, 2017 in Corruption, Elections, Governance, Government, Leadership, PowerTags: democracy, democratic particularism, democratic universalism, Grimot Nane, moral universalism, political elite, politics in Nigeria, responsibility
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Nigeria is Designed to Be an Enduring Failure
Posted: September 3, 2015 in Corruption, Institutions, Power, RationalityTags: belief, Coordination, demarcation, educated Nigerian, elite, failure, God, invention, Nigeria, responsibility, solace
Nigeria’s failing as a nation is not the work of God. When Nigerian political economist, Claude Ake, boldly said Nigeria or Africa was never designed to be successful as modern societies, economically or politically, so many scoffed at him but he was not just right, he was absolutely right. Nigeria was designed to fail and its intellectual and political elites more than anyone else has been at the forefront of negotiating and perpetrating this unstoppable failure. In fact, the Nigerian intellectual elite love the chains of failure that guarantees their society’s failure as they perennially profit very handsomely from it. (more…)
