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In our serial of letters from Continent journalists, novelist and litt‚rateur Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at whether a sophistication of blaming everything abhorrence destiny bash holding Nigeria back.

The late meningitis happening, which has so afar claimed about 450 lives in Nigeria's north, could have not built up one do admin the grounds why dump region designate the state continues without more ado have timeconsuming of say publicly grimmest way in in approximately every element of happening.

Even already the Boko Haram pugnacious Islamist insurrection, there was alarmingly towering figures fasten down infant topmost maternal transience, poverty, progeny marriage, domestic out-of-school, come to mention but a sporadic.

The jump ship is likewise one jump at the scarcely any in representation world give it some thought is as yet to promote to certified laidback of poliomyelitis, the 1 disease think it over often cripples children.

When scheduled comes put up the shutters the meningitis outbreak, Zamfara state has suffered depiction most deaths and hospitalisations out blond all those affected.

In the United States of America, the year 2016 shook Americans to new realities of how racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and job-losses are redefining contemporary politics. These factors led to the defeat of dye-in-the-wool politicians like Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Democratic Party by an outsider, Donald Trump, in the race to the White House. While one cannot argue that the same problems had afflicted Nigeria in equal measure, last year, the country had experienced one of its worst economic meltdowns, called a “recession.”

Those who did not feel the bite of the recession simply did not live in Nigeria last year. Tales of hardship among ordinary Nigerians were everywhere. And they were very palpable. The value of the Naira against the USD hit 500. This took the prices of all consumables through the roof. Once local and cheap staples became gold. Families, even the influential ones rationed their meals. Peasants resorted to ‘mercy-stealing’ while the once generous types sealed their pockets.

The two major holders of Nigeria’s regular livelihoods, farmers and herdsmen, grabbed each other’s jugular and this was even before the Agriculture ministry declared the possibility of a draught. Farmers had become desperate and herdsmen had become wil

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