He is always frank, brutally frank when he decides to speak, and he speaks often these days about national politics and its malcontents. About a decade ago, I was in his house in Asokoro, off T.Y. Danjuma street, interrogating a sore point in the relationship between his Ijaw ethnic group and the Nigerian state. I told him after our meeting, that he was indeed more than an Ijaw leader; that he was a quintessential Nigerian patriot and elder statesman. Leadership of our Southern Nigeria and Middle Belt Forum over a decade now has confirmed my assessment of the irrepressible petrel…
Author: Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike
Japa or Jakpa is a trending neologism that has entered our vocabulary, as it were, from nowhere. Yet it represents a socio-cultural reality that is threatening the economic stability of the homeland. Many believe it is another example of self-harm, occasioned by leadership ineptitude and undisciplined economic policies, with little or no social security for the underserved. A THINK TANK, like The Igbo Studies Association, should not be a passive onlooker as this social phenomenon traverses and unhinges our economic structure. It calls for a valent and reasoned response as this August body holds its meeting at the pre-eminent city…
