Thank you ladies and Gentlemen, your presence is welcomed. I was told once by a Nigerian elder that one must spare some time to listen to individuals who find their way to engage us in conversation regardless of their circumstance. The drunk, madman, child, fool, thief or terrorist would at some stage, if you listen well enough, pass on some useful truth or nugget of wisdom.

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One of the tragedies implicit in the term Boko Haram , to my mind at least, lays in the possibility that the "Boko Haram Project" only partially understands what they mean in the first place, leading to an untenable end game. It seems to me that the ‘Boko Haram Project’ became lost it in its own conceptualization or else became undermined by the religion of its originators or subverted by militant Islam. The Project’s solution then inevitably invoked the archetype Islamic society, which had no chance of working in plural Nigeria or enduring in thire ideal theocratic one (Caliphate) in this second Western century.

Simplified below:

“Boko Haram ” implies that western education is problematic in terms of Western Education’s natural advocacy for Democracy and capitalism which the majority of people agree is inherently corrupting. However, to my mind, Western Education should be taken to invoke subversive primary socialization that prepares African societies for unrealistic goals. By subversive I mean that Western Education naturally prepares its disciples for a Western lifestyle. By Unrealistic I mean that although Western Lifestyle is not in itself undesirable or alien to primordial African worldview or goals, it does represent goals which, given the world’s current level of technological advancement, are unobtainable all things being equal in our third world realities. In short, given the state of the world driven by scarce resources, there is unlikely to come a time (unless there is some technological breakthrough) when African nations will ever provide acceptable amount of jobs to place people in meaningful work let alone gainful ones.

“Bokoharam”: Perspectives derived from implications the terrorists do not even understand in their own terms.

In addition to all that Nigeria strives for in her developmental long terms goals, Nigeria might benefit from pursuing duel Urbanization and ruralisation programs. This effectively means pursuing a ruralisation programs since urbanization is already implicit in current developmental goals. So, in addition to all that the smart people at the helm of our affairs understand and plan in terms of urbanization, a new framework that imagines a Rural Society should be championed. Part of the Rural Society concept would mean active programs to encourage people that rural life can be aspirational. At the primary school level, an idealised rural future should be advanced in parallel with those tenets of the curriculum that currently informs children that the future is urban and technological. At the state and national level there should be attempts at improving the quality of life of village dwellers. This should take the form of encouraging small and large scale agriculture informed by the flora and fauna peculiarities of the different villages or rural places in Nigeria while at the same time providing modern amenities such as light, media connectivity, roads, and good schools and so on. Perhaps the space program should be located in this rural world. The praises of the advantages of rural life should always be sang, advantages such as clean air, simplicity of life, greenery and nature etc.


the Rural Immediate Future

the Rural Immediate Future

the Rural Immediate Future


The Near Future

Remember this: given the state of the world driven by scarce resources, there is unlikely to come a time (unless there is some technological breakthrough) when African nations will ever provide enough jobs to appease their teaming young population. I used the word appease since it is said that the typical Africans response to unemployment is a resort to barbarism. Boko Haram as part of the radical Islamic agenda, dreams unrealistically of reinventing the world in terms of simplistic notions of Caliphate. We could draw some lesson form this and imagine a Nigeria that not only aspires to the highest ideals of democracy and technology but also a parallel ideal agrarian society. The Agrarian society more than the capitalist society has the ability to provide meaningful life for the teaming masses.



Thank you

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When are you going to address the dasukigate ? Or it was also cameroonian stealing and diverting the money meant to fight boko haram?
Once again your cameroonian army neighbor will liberate you and save you from collapse as we did during the biafra war .