My Inaugural Lecture adopts a Gown to Town style in explaining what my professorship is about. So, I will start my lecture with a specific experience with my 2022/2023 third- year undergraduate students.
I entered my class on “Theories of International Relations”, on December 6, 2022 with the intention of discussing with them the topic: National Interest. National interest is constantly bandied around as the rationale for the behaviour of States in the international system. It is the basis for the foreign policies of countries.
5. To be able to do my masters abroad, to become an ambassador, to become a senator, build a mansion for my mum, someday become a respectful leader, buy a Rolls-Royce, work in the United Nations, be able to help people, build a good legacy. 9. Although I have many interests, one of the major ones is to be successful in life. I have a strong desire to do whatever it takes to be up there. In doing what I love and portraying it to the world. I don't know if that is an interest or a desire but I want to be one of the greatest, I hope this answers the question.
15. My current interest is food, although the class choke, chicken can make everything feel better!!! Plus I need money XXXXXXXXXX GTB. 20. My interest is having a first class, having a better life, finding a good job, being a successful entrepreneur, be happy, find a good family, be safe and secure. Working towards my dreams, change the world if not the world, and make a great impact on my family and the generations yet to come.
Food featured for two of the students. That represents one percent. But without necessarily using Pavlov's hierarchy of needs, food is a major one of the three crucial interests for the human being to remain alive. The other two are air and water. While the three may appear mundane, they are crucial for life.How best can I figure this out except conceptualising the word in Yoruba , before thinking of it in English, our borrowed official language. But this is a problem.
With Prof. Adeboye Babalola who had tried to make Yoruba a living language and build words in the modern times long dead, I turned to two minds I knew could offer some help: Dr. Femi Akinkugbe who was my friend from my Unilag academic days, and Mr. Sesan Ekisola, who has been my friend since January 1967 when we became JOGS students. Femi Akinkugbe offered two senses: “fife lati ni ipin” and “fife tokantokan”. Sesan Ekisola offered “inifesi” and “anfani”.
In trying to understand interests further, I asked some knowledgeable friends what they respectively saw as interests. The response from Prof. Ade Ibiwoye, my friend since our leadership of the University of Lagos Students Union in 1974/75 was very interesting. His response in Pidgin, , when translated into English runs as: “Interest in my little understanding is the 'pikin' brought into being by an amount of money, effort, etc., that was invested.
In this sense, interests are significant things or values that are important for living for the individual. They are goals and objectives, needs or desires of individuals.It is useful to look at the crucial things of value to human beings. The crucial things of value for human beings, we refer to, in this lecture, as core interests of individuals because there are other interests that may be necessary but not immediately life-threatening.
His experience established that a human being could go on for about 66 days without food if water was still at least available. Denial of access to water is more crucially damaging than food for human beings to be alive. Without water and food, Wikipedia suggests that death snatches the human being within 8 to 21 days.
The Federal Government of Nigeria , in 2019, came up with a document it called: National Security Strategy. In this document, the FGN defined the national interest when it stated: Finally, there is the need to pursue a multi-pronged approach that brings along dis-incentives, punitive measures, value reorientation, institutional , and technological innovations of course all backed up by the political will and real intentions to reduce corruption.
Politics is interests. It is the efforts of individuals, families, communities, geo-political entities, nation-states, sub-regional/regional blocs/groupings, global/international realities to articulate, aggregate and realise responses to interests. The dominant interests in such struggles build the rest of society in their image.
Power that some define as politics is nothing but a mere instrument for the realisation of interests. Power could be in terms of brute force, judicial enforcement, or soft power that could take the shape of deployment of religion or other ideological suasion to ensure obedience.
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