In order to discuss Wole Soyinka’s speech as above, it is necessary to understand what Cultural Relativism implies. The first use of the term, Cultural Relativism” was around 1924 when Alan Locke described Robert Lowe’s “extreme cultural relativism”, and since then there have been numerous debates between cultural relativism and universal human rights.

A just-published British Council study says Nigeria’s booming population of young people may be a great boom for the country’s economy in the coming decades. But it says if the Nigerian government does not take steps to engage them, the country could face a "demographic disaster."

But you miss the point. Cholera is not a Northern thing. It is a Nigerian problem, that is why when I read the reports and there is a deliberate emphasis on the fact that the 19 Northern states are recording serious casualties, I shudder.