(An overview of a letter shared with a friend on the Issue of Spiritual Revolution for National Development)Dear Mr. John Jones,My generation has no vision of the Nigeria state; we grew up during and after the Civil War. We were either Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, and so on; we were anything, but Nigerians, and not believing in the Nigeria state, we pursued individual and personal aggrandisements. There were periodic and episodic identifications with the Nigeria state, but being unfortunate to have lived as young adults under the several kleptocratic regimes headed by the military. We are the worst that the Nigeria state has thrown up, existential in outlook, bankrupt in morals. I thank God for your inspiration, and for such a time as this, a voice like yours is screaming in our national wilderness.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2023 16:58 UTC