FAROTIMI, Dele2023-08-222023-08-222019978-107-118-451-6https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/871There comes a time in the life of a nation when it must have its own soul-searching conversations, examining its peculiarities as an independent entity with a duty to define and defend its identity and take its place among other countries of the world. Such conversations cannot be left to the whims of the masses. Someone has to take the lead. Someone has to make the call. Someone has to bell the cat. Someone has to be the voice crying in the wilderness, clearing the pathway of the nation to Justice, Equity, and Fair Play, which are the foundations of nationhood or statehood. For this not to be an exercise in futility, it must be a well-articulated exercise, aimed at providing direction to the majority of the people living in a Third World country like Nigeria. The conversation will also require boldness, social and political street knowledge, and, above all, clarity and sincerity of purpose, emanating from the 'deep' of the initiator, which will not rest until it finds a settlement with the 'deep' of the receptor.Truth & polity; Living a lie; An insincere system; The burdened system; A skewed nationhood; Rule of violence; Injustice + Inequality = Conflicts + Insurgencies; Crooked system = bad leadership; The constitution as a burden; The Nigerian state and the rule of law; The burden of being; Collapse of public institutions; The normalization of madness; The untouchable thieves; A criminal justice system; Dubious provenance, questionable quality; Awkward fight against corruption; A compromised middle class; Self-immolation; The subjectivisation of truth; The weaponisation of poverty and ignorance; Dialogues of ventriloquists; The thinking thieves; Yeye rolling… Thinking thieves vs unthinking thieves; Mythicising 'The North'; The Buhari Metaphor; A Virus Unleashed; I love Buhari; Buhari is not to Blame? Really?; Letter to the Buharideens; Citizenship & the Polity Fore-note Citizenship in Nigeria; Sundry Other Items; Truth & Polity II; Corruption of the News; Idiocy of the middle class; Truth as the silver bullet; The stubborn and unpalatable truth; Power corrupts; Up to the oppressed to throw off the oppressor; The power of memorials; June 12 and the aborted nationhood; The arrogance of foolish knowledge; Sundry other Items; Characters & metaphors; Principalities and powers; A lost people; The righteous few; The super eagles and Nigerian unity; Obasanjo, the tortoise, and His In-Laws ; The genius, the liar, and the teleprompter; IITA… Reminder to a wasteland; 'Aremu the lion cub; The thieves and the maddening broom; The rape of lekki: A personal reflection; It's just a penny?; Heroes and the wasted; Sundry other items; Purgation & resolve Nigeria, the way forward; Epilogue; Do not die in their wars; The lazy youth.enBook