A Nation’s Identity Crisis – A Rejoinder This piece is in response to the one written by Reuben Abati (RA) titled: A Nation’s Identity Crisis. I am making this rejoinder because he was, more or less, referring to my generation in that article. After I managed to obtain a credit pass in English language in the West African School Certificate examination, I knew it was largely due to some divine intervention. This is because I went to one of the so-called “Jakande” schools for my primary education where I could hardly string together one correct sentence in English as at the time I left primary six (the last year of primary school). Providence however smiled on me again when the same Jakande government of Unity Party of Nigeria (under the leadership of Awolowo) took the decision to take over missionary schools and some private secondary schools and converted them to public schools. With that single policy, I got the opportunity of...
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