Every morning across Nigeria’s cities and rural communities, millions of citizens rise with an expectation that has increasingly grown one-directional: what will the nation provide for them today? This distortion of citizenship – where the nation is seen as a consumer service rather than a shared enterprise – helps explain why Africa’s largest democracy still trails smaller nations in civic development. Perhaps Nigeria’s developmental stagnation stems not merely from governmental inadequacies but from a citizenry that has forgotten
Every morning across Nigeria’s cities and rural communities, millions of citizens rise with an expectation that has increasingly grown one-directional: what will the nation provide for them today? This distortion of citizenship – where the nation is seen as a consumer service rather than a shared enterprise – helps explain why Africa’s largest democracy still trails smaller nations in civic development. Perhaps Nigeria’s developmental stagnation stems not merely from governmental inadequacies but from a citizenry that has forgotten
