Cleaning and Re-Indoctrinating Nigeria to the Root

About the Book

Cleaning and Re-Indoctrinating Nigeria to the Root is a mirror of the nation where all Nigerians can see their images. It imagines Nigeria as a large portion of farmland owned by a group of families frustrated by their incapacity to plant and harvest abundantly from their travails for so many years. Most seeds/crops die before they are harvested, and few that survive are carted away by wild animals and pests. Eventually, some farmland owners, their dependents, and those who are trained to manage farms but are kept outside the project are beginning to come together to imagine options available for them as follows: (a) coming together of all trained members of the family where they adopt a motion of “change of attitude” (behavioral pattern) and sealed oath of sincerity on all future proceedings; (b) selection of all future seed/crops to be planted in the farmland; (c) screening out of all bad leaders and workers in the farm, (d) disinfecting the barren land from pesticides, screening out gravels and concrete sands, and then irrigating and fertilizing the land; (e) securing the farmland from wild animals by erecting a fence and employing new security guards; (f ) taking decisions on how crops will be harvested and what to do with the gains in areas of priorities, including distribution among the whole group of families.

About the Author

Dr. Charles Nwosu spent many years writing papers and providing strategic analysis for others, including some government officials and international conferences, after obtaining his PhD (political sociology) in 1986, in Paris. However, some of these ideas and analysis were often made tools of diversions and manipulations by interests concerned, including implementers of some policy-making circles, for their own personal egos and aggrandizements. Getting out a book, Cleaning and Reindoctrinating Nigeria to the Root, at this time, is a fulfi llment of the author’s ambition to reach directly the Nigerian and African audience. Charles Nwosu attended Wilcox Memorial Grammar School, Aba Abia State, Nigeria (a model high school), and left for France on government scholarship, where he studied French language in the University of Nancy, and obtained an advanced certificate in French, and went on to study human sciences and sociology in Dijon and Paris. He obtained a national high diploma (human sciences), BSc, MSc, MPhil (sociology), and PhD in political sociology. He is an expert in civil military relations and strategic Studies. He is also linguist and translator (French/English). He was a longtime senior researcher with universities and some international peace missions. He is a member of the International Sociological Association (research group on armed forces and conflict resolution). He has a good working experience with some sensitive Nigerian offices where he occupied senior management positions. He was a federal constituency candidate in the 2003 Nigerian Federal Legislative Assembly elections. He lives in Paris and Nigeria and is happily married to Lyne and has four children.