BigAgendaAfrica [AudioBook]: Why Nigeria Fails....
BigAgendaAfrica:
Why Nigeria Fails, and What Must Come First
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Nigeria’s Crisis Is Moral, Not Technical
It is moral.
We have tried the technical explanations for decades.
We have blamed colonialism.
We have blamed leadership.
We have blamed constitutions.
We have blamed corruption, underfunding, bad data, bad luck.
And yet the pattern persists.
Systems are built.
Budgets are passed.
Reforms are announced.
And nothing changes.
The Refusal This Book Begins With
This book begins with a refusal.
A refusal to pretend that we do not see what is happening.
Because silence is not neutral.
Silence has a price.
And Nigeria has paid that price, not because we were powerless, but because we chose silence.
Silence in words.
Silence in action.
Silence dressed up as patience, tolerance, or realism.
The Cost of Silence
What does silence cost a nation?
For me, this is not abstract.
It is personal.
How can I claim to love a country that gave me everything when it still could, and say nothing as it lies ravaged by citizen-enemies?
Belief Without Diagnosis
For years, I tried to do two things.
First, to believe.
Second, to help change mindsets.
But belief without diagnosis is not hope.
It is denial.
And hope without truth is merely a delay in repair.
Diagnosis must precede hope.
Always.
The Harder Question Behind “Doing Something”
People often ask, sincerely, what can we do?
Doing something sounds noble.
But it hides a harder question.
Doing what, exactly?
What is the true injustice in Nigeria that is worthy of action?
What is the single most critical just thing to do in the pursuit of justice?
The Uncomfortable Answer
My answer is simple, and uncomfortable.
The most important thing we can do, here and now, is to harden our moral core.
Because our central problem as a nation is not technical incompetence.
It is widespread moral failure.
A Sentence I Should Not Have Said
I once said something I should not have said.
But I did.
I said we have become indistinguishable from animals in the jungle.
Let me explain.
The Falomo Bridge Incident
On a weekday evening in Lagos, traffic slowed to a crawl on Falomo Bridge.
The car in front of me moved slightly.
At that moment, a car to my right cut into my lane and took my position.
Three seconds later, the entire line stopped.
I stepped out of my car, calmly, walked to his window, and asked him to wind it down.
He did not.
He simply pleaded.
He was wearing a suit and tie.
He looked like a banker.
Refusing to Call This Normal
Many will scoff at this.
Good for them.
But I refused to accept that this is normal.
I refused to accept that jungle behaviour is the price of survival.
In a very real sense, I refused to commit injustice against Nigeria by doing nothing.
How Change Actually Begins
That is how change begins.
Not with slogans.
With refusal.
Refusal to reward disorder.
Refusal to normalise loss.
Refusal to adapt endlessly to failure and call it resilience.
Because adaptation, when forced, is not strength.
It is surrender dressed as virtue.
Why Moral Action Matters More Than We Think
And here is the part most people miss.
Moral action spreads.
If one thousand people refused disorder each day in Lagos, that would be thirty thousand moral interruptions in one month.
Extend that across the thirty-six state capitals, and you have over a million in a single month.
The Arithmetic of Moral Compounding
But it does not stop there.
Moral action compounds.
If each person inspires just two others per day, the number doubles every twenty-four hours.
In twenty-eight days, one act becomes over two hundred and sixty-eight million.
That is not poetry.
It is arithmetic.
How Nations Are Actually Lost
Nations are not lost in one grand collapse.
They are lost through millions of small abdications.
And they are rebuilt the same way.
The Psychology of Extraction
Nigeria’s leaders do not lack intelligence.
What they lack is intention.
In their private psyche, Nigeria is not a nation to be built.
It is a farm.
A farm of low-hanging fruit.
Harvest here.
Live there.
Extraction becomes policy.
Neglect becomes routine.
Silence becomes survival.
This Is Not an Accident
This is not an accident.
It is arithmetic.
It is science.
And until we confront this honestly, no restructuring, no election, no saviour will matter.
No Utopia, Only Trajectory
This book does not promise utopia.
It promises trajectory.
But trajectory begins with one thing: The Refusal To Do Nothing
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