OPINION: Almajirai influx and an ideal world
In the 1980s—during my doctoral studies —there was a theory of peace and international relations that gained traction among some scholars in the discipline. It was paradoxically called the anarchist theory.
Like Marxism, the anarchist theory is idealistic. Its premise doesn’t reckon with some essence of human nature. In its simplest expression, the theory calls for complete individual freedom without the constraint of state or communal authority. In contrast, the influx of the almajirai into Southern Nigeria has been an anomaly. It is a case of hundreds of young men being steadily and stealthily dumped in Southern communities. In most cases, they were concealed among cows or food stuff and trucked from the North to the South.
Unfortunately, this has been the pattern in the past few years. The unloading of the almajirai children can fairly be described as another instance of the North turning to the South for solutions to its challenges.
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