Awolowo's 1947 Warning: Ignorance Is Nigeria's Real Enemy, By Richard Odusanya

LAGOS – In 1947, thirteen years before independence, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, aged 38, published “Path to Nigerian Freedom.” It was not politics. It was prophecy. His thesis was clear: Nigeria would stand or fall on 2 pillars — Mass Education and Deliberate Economic Planning. Without them, he warned, we would get “freedom in name only” and a harvest of __“tribalism, corruption, and chaos.”_ 78 years later, the prophecy is now our headline. THE PROPHECY

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