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  • Metaphor of the Leaning Tower – By Chidi Amuta

    Metaphor of the Leaning Tower – By Chidi Amuta

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    Chidi Amuta
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    The cry is getting louder that the Nigerian state is about to fail. In the attractive parlance of some foreign reporter, the pessimists insist that the Nigerian house is about to fall. Not quite, I say. The note of perennial pessimism is merely a way of speaking, a cross generational refrain. It is not new.…