Masdar City is almost complete and is now gradually being inhabited. If you are still not convinced that we need craniology as part of a broader tapestry of explanations of the psychology of Nigerian rulers, wait until we begin to hear revelations of their initial cerebral reactions to Madar City. My good guess: it will never occur to the rulers of Nigeria to try and replicate Masdar City in the Niger Delta. Their cerebral instinct will be how to divert their loot into buying the most expensive villas in Masdar City – a project that people with oil money like them envisioned and built. If the Abu Dhabi authorities were ever to release the waiting list of prospective buyers of property in Masdar City, it is a safe guess that Nigerians would be shocked by the number of their Governors, Senators, Reps, Ministers, and Presidency people queuing up to buy property there. Craiology please!!!
Excellent write up and beautiful piece on the Masdar city project.... never heard of it untill i read your piece and i have to say thank you for enlightening me.
its sad really that the Nigerian situation is as it is, cos we cannot entirely blame it on the African life style, cos Libya has oil and its citizens do not live in the misery that Nigerians are, neither can we blame endless years of military rule, cos the same Libya has been ruled by a military oligarchy for well over 25 years and last i heard, Libya, though not Dubai or Abu Dhabi, is still a paradise in the desert.
Incidentally i agree with you.. if and when the list of prospective property buyers of that futuristic city is ever published, Nigerian millionaires will top the list and politicians will make up the majority.
We are a country mired in shame!