Governor Fayose called for team
spirit as panacea to move the region forward, saying «if the Yoruba nation must regain its pride in the Nigerian nation, hence action must be tailored towards the elimination of party politics».
What can we do
as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands
as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human
spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles
as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another
panacea for despair?