efunct Benue-Plateau State. Elephant was not his real name. He was so nick-named because he was a rather fat lad with a reputation for being the school clown. Although I was by far his junior, we were best of friends. What united us was the fact that we both represented the school in inter-school quiz tournaments.In the manner in which the Almighty Creator dishes out talents to his creatures, some people are good general all-rounders while others have talents only in specific areas.
I believe that many talents have perished in Nigeria because of our backward universities where the professors are clannish, tribalistic and highly prejudiced against “outsiders”. They have no capacity to “think outside the box” or to identify talents who can enrich the academic community. Former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, himself a former Harvard man, famously noted that university politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low.
It is extremely rare for a senior public servant or CEO of a bank or any industrial organisation to be made a professor in a Nigerian university. The highest they would get is Senior Lecturer. By contrast, in Britain and North America the topmost Ivy League universities would be begging such people to take up professorships. Alex Ferguson, veteran coach of Manchester United Football Club, was made Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School.
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