General mamman vatsa biography of mahatma
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It recently occurred to me that most Nigerians were not alive on June 12, 1993.
As a result, the cornerstone of Nigeria’s history is getting lost in translation, and the younger generation are unable to appreciate the price that was paid for their freedom.
For those in my generation, June 12 is everything. For the youths of today, it’s mostly lost history.
The older generation have to take the blame because that June 12 is a watershed, too sacred to be a time to be in a picnic.
It is a holiday that should be spent reflecting and meditating on Nigeria’s past, present and future. It should be a day for service and reflection.
In 1993, 31 years ago, when the military did its worst at experimenting with the national experience, most Nigerians were not alive.
According to the United Nations World Population data, 69% of Nigerians were not born in 1993.
Statistics further show that those in the 55-64 age bracket are just 4.5% of the population while those 65 and older account for a mere 2.6%.
So, it is possible to have up to 23% of Nigerians between the ages of 31 to 54 who may not be well disconnected to history.
The greatest majority of the population are not of age to fully understand the dynamics that led to the current democratic governance in th
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“THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VILLAGE” : THE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA AND THE MAKING OF POST-INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA
ABSTRACT This dissertation examines the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN, the first indigenous university in Nigeria and the first land grant university in Africa. This dissertation argues that UNN represented an innovative experiment in African higher education by expanding higher education to the general populace rather than the colonially privileged elite. However, its construction drew upon patronage politics and taxation regimes that expropriated funding at the same time other regions faced education taxes. Resistance to the University’s construction reflected local sentiments of inequitable distribution of tax resources throughout Nigeria’s Eastern Region. The University also served as a mechanism in post-independence Nigerian geopolitics: as a mechanism for removing the influence of the British-established University College, Ibadan and British educational models more generally. The University of Nigeria, Nsukka would be, as Taiye Selasi and Achille Mbembe have phrased it, an “Afro-politan” institution—porous and all-encompassing of knowledge systems throughout the globe. During the Nigeria-Biafra war, UNN faced sustained wartime damage—damage from it coul
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History of Nigeria
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