Unexpectedly. I was still exhilarated. A couple of days before this day (Nov. 18, 2008), there came a report that some Nigerian experts in rocketry had test-fired some rockets. This was certainly a rare and extra event to grace the newsfaces. The usual things had been: how some public minister embezzled some public resources; how some gun-goons abducted someones or somethings; and the like...This piece of new was unusual. I am very happy about it.
After the Fratricide of the late nineteen-sixties, Nigeria did not harness the technologic expertise of the conquered side, Biafra. Instead, the Nigerian state worked to curb technologic interest and astuteness, by force and by persuasion. Many talents wasted or drained away.Now that tech outlook is being re-awakened.
But an old man asked (me) a question I could not answer: "Na missile we go chop?" (Shall we feed on missile?) In otherwords, this kind of great feat ought to begin at agriculture, as was in the late USSR. Popularize (democratize) mechanized Agriculture; then use the proceeds, surplus after ensuring the feeding and sheltering of the people, in projects whose consequences are distant from the people's informal living.
Nonetheless, this was a good news...
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