Quite often, I have found myself
compelled to defend the fundamentals of human rights to supposedly
educated people in Nigeria. A clear demonstration of the declining
quality of our “educated” middle class is the generic ignorance of
foundational social concepts, particularly on the rule of law and the
sanctity of human rights. Nigeria—in 2016—is increasingly becoming a
point of space and time where we revile knowledge and mock discourse.
This seems an appropriate reflection of
the plunging humanism of the Euro-American world. The idea and ideal of a
universal humanity is collapsing under international tribalism. The
western world is retrogressing from post-war advances to
