Madunagu: Projections and imperatives

Madunagu: Projections and imperatives

Guardian

28 October 2010

By Edwin Madunagu

.ON Sunday, September 12, 2010, The Guardian carried an opinion article, What happens if the 2011 elections fail?, written by an American intellectual and diplomat, Dr. John Campbell. The writer had served as America's ambassador to Nigeria between 2004 and 2007. He is regarded in America and, I am sure, by American-worshippers in Nigeria, as an “expert” on Africa, and is currently a Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the United States Council on Foreign Relations. The article in question had appeared in Foreign Affairs before its appearance in The Guardian, and a book by Campbell, Nigeria: Dancing on the brink, is scheduled to be published next month. I should, perhaps, add that Campbell is not the only establishment intellectual in America to view our country with pessimism.