Abuja, Omelas, and the Burden of Denial
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- Published on Sunday, 01 April 2012 18:45
- Written by Paul Nnodim
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Reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas”, I immediately thought about my recent visit to Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
JW_DISQUS_ADD_A_COMMENTNigerian Leaders Under the Veil of Ignorance
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:41
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Since the election of President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, especially the northern part, has witnessed series of bomb incidents and riots.
JW_DISQUS_ADD_A_COMMENTBoko Haram, Fuel Subsidy Removal, and the Chatter about Civil War
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- Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 02:37
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If war is a bad thing, then civil war is horrific, and religious civil war is even more grisly. Normally, someone like me, who was born a couple of years after the end of the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, should have no business educating fellow Nigerians about the consequences of a civil war.
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