Nigeria and the lessons from American politics, by Rotimi Fasan

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JUST hours after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, an anonymous “travel advisory” found its way into the internet. It was at once satiric and tongue-in-cheek in its advice to Africans, not citizens of particular countries of the continent, to be wary of travelling to America at these times.

What were the words from them concerning the conduct of the 2023 elections and others before that, words that could only but serve to magnify the degree of whatever trouble they foretold and scare away investors and visitors interested in doing business with Nigeria? In the wake of the Bola Tinubu presidency, a certain tribe of political malcontents that sees bigotry in every action and utterances of Nigerians from other parts of the country, especially those of the same ethnic origin of the...

Although not the oldest, America’s practice of democracy is often celebrated as the most advanced and mature in the last three centuries. From 1776 when it broke away from the stranglehold of Britain, it has held itself to standards that others have found both far-sighted and admirable, much in the same way as the South African post-apartheid constitution has been far ahead of those written before it. This, because of its history of race-relegation, the worst form conceivable.

Its history and legacy of slavery and racial injustice against people of African descent as well as the indigenous population of America and its readiness and ability to accept its complicity in these dark stains on her democratic pretensions while engaged in the ongoing work of fashioning a nation out of its patchwork of tribal and racial affiliations and enclaves, are some of what signpost America’s exceptionalism.

 

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