Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- I THE CHANGING COMMONWEALTH
- II DEMOCRACY
- III THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
- IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- V DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
- VI NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
- VII PEACE AND SECURITY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
- VIII TOWARDS A COMMON HUMANITY
- NOTES TO THE TEXT
- ANNEXES I Basic Data on Commonwealth Member Countries
- ANNEXES II Map of the Commonwealth
- ANNEXES III Commonwealth Membership of Regional Organisations
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
VI - NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- I THE CHANGING COMMONWEALTH
- II DEMOCRACY
- III THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
- IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- V DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
- VI NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
- VII PEACE AND SECURITY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
- VIII TOWARDS A COMMON HUMANITY
- NOTES TO THE TEXT
- ANNEXES I Basic Data on Commonwealth Member Countries
- ANNEXES II Map of the Commonwealth
- ANNEXES III Commonwealth Membership of Regional Organisations
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
Summary
Keeping Faith with the Fatherland
Ibadan University, Nigeria
18 March 1983
Delivering the fifth annual Alumni Lecture at Ibadan University, he speaks of the responsibilities borne by “midnight's children”, the generation of Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960, and of the postindependence generation, of the country's coming of age after passing 21 years, of national identity and democracy; and he calls for a rededication to “personal productivity, public accountability and national unity” …
Rising to address you in this, the fifth annual Alumni Lecture, I feel a mixture of pride and humility. I am of course intensely proud that the National Executive Council of the Alumni Association should have invited me to speak; but I am humbled by the responsibility of living up to this high honour, and to the tradition already established by your previous alumni lecturers of shedding important fresh light on issues of central concern in the national life of our Nigeria. That wild horses, and the pressures of Commonwealth commitments, could not have prevented me from accepting is a measure both of the emotion I feel at being honoured by my university, and of the importance I attach to this opportunity to address a wider Nigerian audience on a crucial theme. I have chosen as my subject, ''Keeping Faith with the Fatherland''. Faith is a characteristic of religions, but is not confined to them.
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- The Missing HeadlinesSelected Speeches, pp. 337 - 386Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1997