What a Story - A Nigerian Experience

This book relates the life experiences of a Nigerian engineer and retired university teacher who considers himself a member of the "wasted generation". Trained shortly after political independence in 1960, in hope of positive and specific contributions to national development but made redundant by lack of continuity, political focus, and globalization. Underdevelopment is a creeping process, backwardness a choice, resource poverty not a serious hindrance. The desire to belong in a...
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This book relates the life experiences of a Nigerian engineer and retired university teacher who considers himself a member of the "wasted generation". Trained shortly after political independence in 1960, in hope of positive and specific contributions to national development but made redundant by lack of continuity, political focus, and globalization. Underdevelopment is a creeping process, backwardness a choice, resource poverty not a serious hindrance. The desire to belong in a world that drags you along is a most debilitating complex noted among some countries of Africa. Similar issues were outlined throughout the book in the hope that honest and truthful presentation might deliver the real message.Corruption is haphazard redistribution of resources that may lead to accidental but not a deliberately structured development. Nigerian resources are mostly in Nigerian hands but not being used for desired Nigerian aspirations. Neither a waste, nor strictly a loss.