Kalu Idika Kalu, Samuel Abbd, Akin Taiwo, Ayo Abimbola, Sonala Olumhense, Chris Tunde Odediran, Henry Eke, etc, whose intellectual heavy-weightedness and political reflexes nobly star in the gift I offer the future World Power at fifty. I acknowledge Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Okey Ndibe, late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Abubakar Umar, Chief Audu Ogbe, Comrade Balarebe Musa, Farooq Adamu Kperogi, Akin Iwilade, Joe Igbokwe, Hilary Odion Evbayiro, Dr. I acknowledge Nigeriaworld (SaharaReporters (GhanaWorld(The Chinua Achebe Foundation, TELL Magazine, The Newswatch, New York Times, Earthbuilders, BBC, etc., whose archaives filled the fearful vacuum of my ambitious contents.
Ayorinde Olusola, my atheist friend whose life is fine enough to prove those who equate atheism with ungodliness expressly wrong, for his input in the work of researching relevant works. I thank the Lefevres, the Akinolas, the Atobas, the Majolagbes, the Lamidis, etc., for the sound of joy they compose in my heart. Join Humanity Day on Facebook!) for their unalloyed support for my all. I thank fellow Samaformists and our Humanity Day Organizing Committee (and every 17th of March is Humanity Day. I thank all organized men, women, and societies whose lives, inspirations and ideals form the philosophical foundation upon which A Gift to Nigeria at Fifty is boldly built. I acknowledge my family-grand parents, parents, siblings and relatives whose sacrificial hoping in my noble hope increases my quest for, and faith in ideal hope as I settle the contradictory meanings of existence and essence in my mind and life. Therefore I thank the Dweller of the Oval Office for the life, love and liberty He decorates my soul and body with, as a significant constituent of the human race in general, and of Nigeria in particular. I however shelved my thoughts and saved my inevitable life-aches (?) deliberately till the Fiftieth Independence Anniversary of Nigeria. This inner compulsion regularly had its appetite whetted by the published opinions of principally principled and prominent Nigerians, and of the popular values and cherished ideals of politically standard nations through whom, I must confess, my passion for organized involvement in the shaping of my nation's destiny substantially evolved, on every Independence Day. Right from the time I began to feel deep and competent enough to delegate my trusted thoughts to words as a philosopher and writer, I had reared the compelling need to blend millions' historical humiliation and elation with the Samaformistic truth on every occasion of Nigeria's Independence Day. for the earth and waters and peoples of Nigeria for always being at the receiving end of the Nigerian moral and physical violence. for the standing legends of the Nigerian promise who labour and struggle-daring deadly dangers-that our heroes' death may not be in vain for the fallen heroes of the Nigerian hope who spoke and wrote and rose and hoped, to the death, that Nigeria may yield our planet infinite hope President Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address. I see one-third of a nation ill-clad, ill-nourished." I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory, and by their poverty, denying work and productiveness to many other millions. I see millions denied education, recreation and the opportunities to better their lots and the lots of their children. I see millions whose daily lives in cities and on farms continue under conditions labeled indecent by so called polite society half a century ago. I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs on them day by day. But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation, I see tens of millions of its citizens, substantial part of its whole population, which at this very moment, denied the greater part of what the lowest standard of today calls the necessities of life. I see a United States which can demonstrate that under democratic methods of government, national wealth can be translated into a spreading volume of human comforts hitherto unknown, and the lowest standard of living can be raised far above the level of mere subsistence. "I see a great nation, upon a continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. "Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not madeīy singing:-"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade."
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