corruption
-
Although an American classic, Frank Capra’s 1939 “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” offers eternal truths that resonate in all geopolitical landscape. It is a forceful telling of the limit of idealism and the toll of ambition. And as Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari took over this past month the rudder of Africa’s largest democracy and its biggest
-
As the clock struck midnight on October 1, 1960, the new Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, spoke into the microphone and declared Nigeria free from the shackles of colonial Britain. “I promise you,” he said, “we shall not fail … We come to this task better-equipped than many.” Five years later, Abubakar will be dragged
The Restless ChronicleS 