In Guyana, they did it swiftly under the supervision of Reverend Jones.

In Nigeria, we are doing it slowly, painfully, and in installments by gradually surrendering our right to transcendental thought and imagination beyond personalities.

Never lose or surrender the ability to imagine your country beyond the immediate predilections and preferments of the political juggernauts of the moment.

Trump, Clinton, Romney, Sanders, are doing the calibrations, recalibrations, alignments, and realignments of the present. People are following and discussing these things as they should but if you are an investor in the spaces of American public intellection, you would have noticed that nobody has surrendered transcendental thought to the daily shenanigans of these politicians.

There is a much higher level of discourse in which people are imagining the march and future of America in the context of the great themes of the future – nationalism, national choices, globalization, American exceptionalism. Issues are being vigorously engaged beyond these dramatis personae of the moment. In fact, in the context of these conversations about the future and direction of America, personalities matter little, ideas, paths, and choices matter far more.

I’ve been very despondent about Nigeria lately. There’s been a colossal surrender of the public sphere to the peccadilloes of transient politicians and other political actors...

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