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Men come and men go. But does history make the man or does the man make history? When this old philosophical conundrum was put across to Nelson Mandela, he responded that history makes the man. Though others may have a different opinion, this was certainly the case of the Okoroba-born scholar, orator, activist, intellectual giant and philanthropist, Barrister Oronto Obebitazibanateiami Douglas, who sojourned planet earth for forty-eight years.
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Oronto’s parents, Pa Obebara Douglas and Mrs Igoni Douglas, probably saw what others did not see and named him Obebitazibanateiami, which in the Ogbia language simply means “
The good of God will get to me”. The Natei in the name took prominence and, indeed, the good of God got to many people and communities through Oronto Natei Douglas, popularly known as OND.
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Alexander Okere
Published 14 March 2021
A former early career fellow in the Department of Politics at University of Oxford, Ike Okonta, has described effective political leadership and liberal democracy as essential factors that would promote true federalism in Nigeria.
Okonta, who stated this in his book, ‘Nigeria and the Challenges of Federalism,’ said the reluctance of Nigeria’s political leaders, from the colonial era to the present time, to put forward a constitution that would be reflective of the diversities that exist among Nigerians contributed to the country’s current problems.
“The second vital ingredient necessary for federalism to thrive and prosper is effective political leadership. Federalism is by design a system that depends on consensus, given and taken and the ability to take the long view for it to work.
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And Jimanze Ego-Alowes died from liver cancer at 62 before we could hatch his next-level proposal. A prolific author, he described himself on his Twitter handle as a “journalist, poet and writer with a passion for new knowledge and human development.” He was the founding Director of The Brace Institute, a Lagos-based think tank; and founder of a fledgling civil society advocacy group, Minority Rights Defense Initiative, MRDI; and Publisher of The Stone Press Ltd., with which he reissued his remarkable 2006 book, How Intellectuals Underdeveloped Nigeria and Other Essays, originally published by the University of Michigan Press.
As part of a recent research for an article, I found an intriguingly titled work by my friend, publisher, philosopher, and prolific writer and scholar, Dr. Jimanze Ego-Alowes. I contacted him to arrange how I could buy a copy of the book, The University-Media Complex. Afterwards, my dependable research assistant in Nigeria, I