Nigerian Times

The World Bank has noted that Nigeria is at a crossroads in a special Growth Employment and Markets in States (GEMS) Project report. The country can choose to tackle the distortions that have reduced incentives for investment and productive activity and move towards sustainable and diversified growth. It can also build on islands of success and promising cluster initiatives and enclaves that can then pull along the rest of the economy (successfully achieved in China and India) or it can ignore the reform imperatives and pay the price of having a highly distorted, rentier economy, once oil prices fall. Click here for the full report Tweet

Below is an exchange between Chinweizu of Nigeria and me on who is to blame for the national oppression of Nigerians. Chinweizu blames white people; I blame Nigerians, especially their leaders. This conversation is relevant to African Americans in that there is a tendency among us to blame "white supremacy" for all or most of our problems. My view is that that perspective is inadequate, for many of our problems should be partially placed elsewhere, either on our leaders (in all stations of life) or on our regard for those leaders or on ourselves (individually and collectively). We cannot blame that which has already been conquered, or is dead. -- Rudy Nigeria and White Supremacy Rudy, Like Neely Fuller, Jr. said, "If you don't understand white supremacy--what it is, and how it works -- everything else that you understand will only confuse you." The picture painted by Franklyn, though illuminating as far as it goes, does not go far enough. It is like a picture o...