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What is the Nigerian Dream? How will we bring it about? Over the next few months we will feature different perceptions of the Nigerian dream and how people propose for the dream to be achieved. Mr Udoh suggests that the post 1978- change in China is due mainly the influx of well educated Chinese from the diaspora and a willingness of Deng to embrace the economic liberation necessary to free the creativity of the Chinese entrepreneur. In essence a contradistinction between the central communist governing philosophy and acceptance of capitalist liberal ideology. This unique but pragmatic solution reminds me of me! Whenever people ask me what American political party I support my answer is usually, "I am a Republican in principle but a Democrat in practise". The Chinese are conservative in ideology but ensure enough economic liberality to create wealth. Well played if you ask me. The question still remains what is the Nigerian Dream? And how can this be achieved? Lets hear fr...

The erstwhile forefathers of pre-independence Africa such as Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo had clear cut vision and an unwavering message. You could always tell where they stood and their political parties reflected this ideology. The current trend across the continent is to engage in name dropping. A veritable recourse to politics of the past. Political parties like living organisms are prone to atrophy if they do nothing to engage the environment and evolve to survive. That is probably why Ahmadu Bello's NPC, Nnamdi Azikiwe's NCNC (and NPP) and Awolowo's AG (and UPN) are all deceased. Perhaps the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa and Kenyan's Kenya African National Union (KANU) have fared better by trying to engage with the polity and morph along with the society. I mean if they do not "stand for something they will fall for anything" as the saying goes. While ANC seems to move from streng...