The enduring power of the Ghana example

So many important things have happened or occurred in the past few days or about to happen in the next that it has been a real struggle choosing what to write on today. To be fair to my readers, I have decided to touch only tangentially on about two or three and concentrate on only one main course; the meaning of the politics of the late Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew.

Today, I noticed with deep satisfaction that my favourite bad street in the city, the New Town road, has almost completely been asphalted from end to end, as was promised us late last year, to howls of protest from the usual quarters. It has effectively removed the twists and turns one has to contend with regarding its previous state of pot and manholes, depressions and elevations, as we struggle to avoid the usual heavy traffic.

Tomorrow marks the day of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Nigeria, the biggest black African country in the world, and a continental powerhouse in b