From Children of Anger to Children of Action – By Efe Wanogho
There is anger in the land. That much, should be trite knowledge to any observant mind to the goings on, in Nigeria. It is this bottled-up and long-suppressed anger, arising from decades of misrule by the nation’s political leadership, now being freely ventilated no longer solely in homes, beer-parlours, offices, and that newspaper stand by the street corner, with its daily assemblage of members of the “Free Readers association of Nigeria”, the unofficial unregistered umbrella body of Nigerians who can hardly afford copies of the daily news, in print; but increasingly in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and innumerable blogs on the internet; that prompted David Mark, Senate President of Nigeria, to seek to gag the free usage of social media by Nigerians. This same anger is responsible for Reuben Abati’s description of the citizens of his country as “children of anger”, for no other fathomable reason, than for expressing discontent with his boss, in no uncertain ter...