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Walk the streets of any urban or semi-urban town in both the North and South of Nigeria and, Mr. Osuji's article will shock you. Its apparent depature from reality is so immense, as to verge on embarassing.

I say urban and semi-urban becuase rural is so out of it. If rural Nigeria accounts for half the country then, you truely begin to question this piece. And, I say apparent depature from reality because, Mr. Osuji would have had a stronger arguement had his thesis being built around " The North Has Conquered Nigeria's Political Class Culturally" and he had procceeded to argue that, there is a link, in Nigeria, between the political class and popular culture / fashion trends. Even this would have being a tricky arguement to press -- especially in the south -- where there is a near total cultural disconnect from the political class.

Nigeria is a painful place to live, maybe moreso for a politically or/and historically concsious southerner...... But, these thoeries, these arguements?........