After flipping the last page of The Trouble With Nigeria, I wonder to myself if there are any chances that the distinguished author could rename the book title to be The Trouble with Kenya. Many reasons for these disturbing thoughts, which I’ll share as posts here in the next few days. They are excerpts from the book.
The real victims of our callous system, the wretched of the earth: the peasant scratching out a living in the deteriorating rural environment, the petty trader with all his wares on his head, the beggar under the fly-over and millions that you cannot even recognize.
They are largely silent and invisible. They don’t appear on front pages; they do not initiate industrial actions. They drink bad water and suffer from all kinds of preventable diseases. There are no hospitals within reach of them; but even if there were they couldn’t afford to attend. There may be a school of sorts which their children go to when there is ‘free education’ and withdraw from when ‘levies’ are demanded.
The politician may pay them a siren-visit once in four years and promise to give them this and that and the other. He never says that what he gives is theirs in the first place.
– From The Trouble with Nigeria, Chinua Achebe
Conversations 
The same trouble our country is facing….we are in the mercy of heartless human beings.God is for us all
Yes indeed. And then we forget quickly. Make the same mistakes every five years.