When Men Choose Blindness: A Short History Of Develomental Denial – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
WHEN MEN CHOOSE BLINDNESS: A SHORT HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT DENIAL From Ancient States to Osisioma NgwaHistory records a strange but recurring political disease: the refusal to see. Not because nothing exists, but because seeing would destroy a carefully built narrative. Across centuries and continents, political actors have chosen blindness to developmental efforts—sometimes out of rivalry, sometimes out of wounded pride, sometimes out of the simple fear that acknowledgment would elevate a rival.Abia State, today, is not exempt from this ancient habit. THE OLD STORY, RETOLDFrom Athens to Washington, from Singapore to Johannesburg, history shows that reform periods attract a peculiar…
