Nigeria: Who Is to Blame?
Nigeria: Who Is to Blame? For over 60 years, Nigeria’s problems have always largely been attributed to corruption. But most of our people don’t understand that corruption is actually obviously the foundation of capitalism. For one to have a capitalist society, you have to have a mechanism that takes resources that belong to everybody—I mean resources that belong to the public. And you also need to privatize those resources and give them to the few for them to then enslave everybody’s else labor to make money in the capitalist system. And that’s why I sometimes opine that it was after 1914 that the capitalist system became so manifested in Nigeria that we began to have writings on the context, with the amalgamation of the two separate entities; the protectorates of northern Nigeria and southern Nigeria. However, some believe that the extent action of capitalism was done during the top days of Royal Niger Company, believing that George Goldie was the most proponent of the syst...