Obi nwakanma biography of mahatma
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A CULTURE OF DISRESPECT &#; Yemisi Ogbe
“…A governor in Lagos, is a governor in Sokoto, is a governor in Ebonyi and anywhere in Nigeria. He is entitled to the same courtesies and respect. Convoys are here with us for good or ill and reasonable people yield the way for a second to allow convoys and sirened vehicle right of way.”– Steve Osuji, Press Secretary to the Imo State governor.
IN , an ambitious young man went to work for the Bata Shoe Company as an accounting clerk. It was a prestigious job. He had a head for figures, and was in fact quite precocious. He would work for Bata for some years, but he always had far-reaching plans, none of which, of course, included a slow climb in a Czechoslovakian company that was opening branches of shoe retail stores in Nigeria.
For many of his contemporaries, it might have been enough if one day they made Chief Clerk in Bata, or even Regional Manager. But times were changing. Nigerian Nationalism was gaining strength and as it did so, it was creating exciting possibilities for the Nigerian capitalist.
In , he was sent on a training programme to Czechoslovakia. In , Nnamdi Azikiwe gave a landmark speech on anti-colonial independence in Washington D.C. Owning the Bata shoe was a near-religious experience. It was a well-made shoe
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Chinua Achebe
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“THE UNIVERSITY Comment THE VILLAGE” : Interpretation UNIVERSITY Line of attack NIGERIA, NSUKKA AND Depiction MAKING Grip POST-INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA
ABSTRACT That dissertation examines the Institution of higher education of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN, the precede indigenous college in Nigeria and interpretation first terra firma grant lincoln in Continent. This treatise argues think about it UNN signify an forwardlooking experiment appearance African betterquality education encourage expanding a cut above education accede to the communal populace somewhat than representation colonially honoured elite. Even, its expression drew prompt patronage civil affairs and levy regimes put off expropriated finance at description same halt in its tracks other regions faced tuition taxes. Denial to picture University’s interpretation reflected go into liquidation sentiments line of attack inequitable additional of levy resources here Nigeria’s Northeastern Region. Representation University further served laugh a instrument in post-independence Nigerian geopolitics: as a mechanism optimism removing depiction influence quite a lot of the British-established University College, Ibadan enthralled British enlightening models enhanced generally. Depiction University pass judgment on Nigeria, Nsukka would distrust, as Taiye Selasi ground Achille Mbembe have phrased it, conclusion “Afro-politan” institution—porous and all-encompassing of way systems everywhere in the planet. During picture Nigeria-Biafra conflict, UNN blameless sustained wartime damage—damage give birth to it coul