THE pasts we are comfortable with and the future we envisage our choices. It is because we choose our past, that we can decide either to use it as a challenge or as a cause to celebrate. Those who seek to change the present in line of visions of futures of achievable greatness and glory must align, must situate their choices in acts of political power.
Years are no measure in themselves of relevance, utility or of significance.
It is the projects that are collectively understaken that give grace and honour to the time expended for their actualisation. The verdict that our current problems, plights and prospects pronounce on our past is not of praise but of queries. We examine some of them in this our fourtieth year of existence. There are grounds to question the maturity of their understanding of Nigeria's history. If our founding fathers had known that the British Empire served the same function as the German, the French, the Belgian, the Italian and the Spanish Empires in Africa, then they may not have defined their situation and their orientation to political power in the way they eventually did.