Awolowo was relentless in his investment in the prospect of a new dawn and the necessity of human agency in producing this.
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Such a reflection is particularly crucial for the progressive forces who, paradoxically, have been fighting what would seem a rearguard battle, especially since the start of the Fourth Republic.
As a social democrat, he was more devoted to egalitarian rule and egalitarian life than to their ideological provenance. As a social welfarist, he saw the state as an instrumentality of ensuring the ‘good life for all’ than as a mere rationality of rule, let alone as a modern technique of class accumulation. This was why his reflections led him to a two-pronged approach to Nigeria’s peculiar challenges.
As a social democrat, he was more devoted to egalitarian rule and egalitarian life than to their ideological provenance. As a social welfarist, he saw the state as an instrumentality of ensuring the ‘good life for all’ than as a mere rationality of rule, let alone as a modern technique of class accumulation. This was why his reflections led him to a two-pronged approach to Nigeria’s peculiar challenges.
Nigeria is yet to answer the question he posed about both the country’s possibilities and the consequences of a departure from the path he laid for national greatness. Also, those he left behind are yet to posequestion in a new way, let alone produce the answer that is necessary to terminate, or at least attenuate, the misery of tens of millions of our compatriots caught up in the current contraption.
Despite this, There is need to remember this even as we confront yet another false dawn.
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