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NIGERIA IN TRANSITION

Keeping Faith with the Fatherland Ibadan University, Nigeria 18 March 1983 Delivering the fifth annual Alumni Lecture at Ibadan University, he speaks of the responsibilities borne by “midnight's children”, the generation of Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960, and of the postindependence generation, of the country's coming of age after passing 21 years, of national identity and democracy; and he calls for a rededication to “personal productivity, public accountability and national unity” … Rising to address you in this, the fifth annual Alumni Lecture, I feel a mixture of pride and humili…