Nigeria is letting the Black race down by failing to achieve its manifest destiny, said Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi.
The Guardian reports that the former Minister of External Affairs made this assertion during the 2016 Convocation Lecture of the University of Ibadan last week.
In a paper entitled, ‘Nigerian Exceptionalism – Nigeria’s Quest for World Leadership’, Akinyemi said: “On the official level, Nigeria sought to concretise its nexus with the world’s Black community by announcing the establishment of a museum of Black and African arts and civilisation.
“But what the Nigerian government focuses on is the stamping of feet and wiggling of waists. That is not part of the existentialism that the Diaspora Blacks are demanding from Nigeria. They are demanding the evolution of a modern powerful state.”
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