Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Urowayino Jeremiah
Published on 2025-12-13 06:15:43
By Matilda Ikediobi
Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, in this monitored interview, gave reasons Nigeria has failed to reach its potential and proffered solutions to the country’s problems. Excerpts:
What’s your assessment of where we are? What’s your view about where we seem to be headed?
I think the Tony Uranta Memorial lecture was an appropriate place to get into this, because in ways, Tony Uranta, who I walked a path with, represented an era of optimism about Nigeria. When we were young kids, youth corps members, back in 1977, the optimism was extraordinary. We thought we would change the world. Nigeria was at the epicenter of a rise of the dignity of the black man. Now, you and I know that this…
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