Africa’s cultural identities may hold key to development –Aniagolu

Three factors stood out like a sore finger during the recent Think Tank for Sustainable Development (TTTSD) webinar titled “Reinventing Tribalism to Work for Africa’s Development.” They are “Appointing only people from one’s ethnic group into positions of power is not tribalism; it is cronyism because those who get the positions are not necessarily the best from the tribe but friends and associates of the appointer.”
Secondly, “Taking all projects to your village or LGA is not tribalism because many of those projects end up not being viable and not useful to the tribe. Nigeria is littered with such abandoned projects.”
And thirdly, “Voting for someone from your tribe regardless of ca...