The Agẹmọ curse and Nigeria’s free fall, By Festus Adedayo
Add us on Google “They just tend not to be honest. Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvelous scammers. I mean, it is in their national culture.” That damning comment appeared in the 25 September, 1995, edition of The New Yorker.
- ▪Add us on Google “They just tend not to be honest.
- ▪Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvelous scammers.
- ▪I mean, it is in their national culture.” That damning comment appeared in the 25 September, 1995, edition of The New Yorker.
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Add us on Google “They just tend not to be honest. Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvelous scammers. I mean, it is in their national culture.” That damning comment appeared in the 25 September, 1995, edition of The New Yorker. That scathing assertion stirred a hornet’s nest, and its author — Colin Powell, the urbane American diplomat, Army General, and later the 65th Secretary of State (and the first Black American to serve in that role) — courted unpleasant rebukes for those remarks. Powell was like smelly rot on whom flies perched as he courted outrage with that unflattering categorisation. Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp A similar whitewash of Nigeria occurred years later.
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