RIP great man, 4 quotes from you that I never forget;

1. On the two Nigerian ideals on the coat of arms; UNITY and FAITH you said "Virtues like UNITY and FAITH are not absolute but conditional on their satisfaction of other purposes. Their social validity depends on the willingness or the ability of citizens to ask the searching question. This calls for a habit of mental rigour, for which unfortunately, Nigerians are not famous.
But the really interesting question is why were we drawn in the first place to concepts like UNITY and FAITH with their potentialities for looseness? Why did we not think, for example, of such concepts such as JUSTICE and HONESTY which can not be so easily directed to undesirable ends. Justice never prompts the question: justice for what? Neither does honesty or truth. Is it then possible that as a nation we instinctively chose to extol easy virtues which are amenable to the manipulation of hypocrites rather than difficult ones which would have imposed the strain of seriousness upon us? And was that one of the legacies of our founding fathers?"

2. On the origin of national resentment of the igbos he said; the origin of the national resentment of the igbo is as old as Nigeria and thus quite as complicated. But it can be summarized thus: the igbo culture being receptive to change, individualistic and highly competitive, gave the igbo man an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots in securing credentials or advancement in Nigerian colonial society. Unlike the Hausa fulani, he was unhindered by a wary religion, and unlike the yoruba unhampered by traditional hierachies. This kind of creature fearing no God nor man, was custom-made to grasp opportunities, such as they were, of the white man's dispensation."

3. The politics of the second republic has demonstrated the Shavian conceit that the only thing Nigerians learn from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

4. To be educated is, after all, to develop the questioning habit, to be sceptical of easy promises and to use past experience creatively.

HBD. Dude don die sha, we ought to come up and pay homage by.fulfilling his dying wishes.

Truly a great man, continue to rest in peace.

Rest in peace Brother man.

The world would have never been the same without you. Thank you for your contribution!

Happy birthday!

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I'm currently reading There Was A Country.