tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10922597.post-19696869155442286742007-05-18T16:19:00.000-04:002007-05-18T16:25:30.845-04:00<div align="justify">Some more from my draft folder...</div><div align="justify"><a href="https://www.omodudu.com/2007/01/where-does-our-nationalism-go-to-die.html">Charlie's</a> Son, I know him too well. Young, energetic and full of life. He was full of hope for dear country. Call him naive, call him inexperienced, call <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">him</span> what you wish, the only thing he seemed to be sure of was that Nigeria would return to her rightful place of greatness very soon. You could call him a Metro-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)">Africanist</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">after all</span> he was part <a href="https://www.omodudu.com/2007/01/where-does-our-nationalism-go-to-die.html">Charlie</a>. His dreams were straight forward and simple. Stay focused, get a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">PhD</span> in developmental economics and then turn things around from his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">vantage</span> position. This was an African armed with a PLAN. Unlike <a href="https://www.omodudu.com/2007/01/where-does-our-nationalism-go-to-die.html">Charlie</a> who threw stones at the system from across the street, his plan was simple, conquer from within.</div><div align="justify">Fast-forward 5 years later, Chicago USA, first year in graduate school. After 6 months of waiting for data to arrive from <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">various</span> African <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">bureaus</span>, he kept getting empty promises. He finds himself writing his final paper on Business practices of American Companies.</div><div align="justify">Now he sits at his desking with the question on his mind, whatever happened to my 'save Nigeria dreams', whatever happened? Why did I sell out? The same answer is echoed once again. A smart person chooses his battles carefully, some causes are not worth dying for, your guess is as good as mine. I do not think Nigeria is worth dying for.</div><div align="justify"></div>Omodudu