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Kingsley Moghalu

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25 Dec

Arriving Genesis House, my country home in Akaboezem Community in Uruagu, Nnewi North LGA, yesterday. Since I built it in 2004 while a #UN official in Geneva, it’s been an oasis that connects me to my roots in my local community.

It stands on the site of my late father Isaac Moghalu’s bungalow (Washington House) that he built in 1966 while he was a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer. We spent most of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war in this compound, which was different then- it also had an air raid bunker!

As is traditional with the Igbos, the grave of my late father is here also. It pained me to have to break down his house to build Genesis House because we did not have a large expanse of land. Many fond memories, including getting lost (and later found!) when,

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Kingsley Moghalu

@MoghaluKingsley

8 Dec

Widows in Nigeria have a hard time. They are first hit by financial and economic hardship. Next, husband probably left no will and his relatives will take over his property (including land she can farm). Then comes loneliness and depression. We have no social security in Nigeria.

If she is “fortunate” her kids may be grown and earning and can support her, but if they are young they may have to drop out of school, restoring a cycle of inter generational poverty. The economic impact of widowhood is not just financial. Poverty takes many forms including lack

of access to opportunities the widow may have had with her late husband’s support and protection. Then she faces social stigma, discrimination and possible sexual abuse. In patriarchal societies like ours women are often wrongly seen as second class, widows as third class.

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Kingsley Moghalu

@MoghaluKingsley

5 Dec

“What have you done for your village?” This popular question, asked of successful professionals, public servants, or political leaders, signifies corruption as inverted philanthropy. I am not the Anambra State Government or Nnewi North LGA. A failure of government to perform

its functions should not be passed off to individuals - especially those who are or have been public servants and not wealthy entrepreneurs. This misplaced expectation is partly why public officers steal public funds so that they can “do things” for their community that honest

income can’t afford. We Nigerians should not allow our paradigm perceptions to be distorted by the collapse of values that has happened in our country.

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Kingsley Moghalu

@MoghaluKingsley

14 Nov

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020: FACTS, DISPUTES, AND DELUSIONS - A THREAD

1. It’s natural that President Trump and his supporters are shell-shocked by the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election which,according to the vote tallies confirmed (but not yet formally

2. certified) so far, as well as media projections and “calls” on the basis of the vote count, he has lost to Joseph R. Biden. It can’t be pleasant for any candidate to lose an election, let alone one with Trump’s well known temperament and personality. His favorite word for his

3. political opponents is “loser”. It must hurt and strain the limits of his relationship with facts, truths, and reality (always controversial even at the best of times) to be put into the same bucket by the outcome of an election which, in its 2016 edition, made him the winner.

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Kingsley Moghalu

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9 Sep

Our governments invest political and financial capital in infrastructure. Physical infrastructure is important but, as a development strategy, the most important investment, the highest priority, is human development: quality of life - health, education and skills, potable water,

life expectancy (how long a country’s citizens live on average). The development trajectory should be: 1. Human Development (mainly social infrastructure); 2. Economic Growth (which includes GDP growth and can be helped by physical infrastructure); 3. Structural Transformation

(a shift away from single commodity or natural resource dependency to a diversified economy based on complex, value-added production and services). Failure to proceed in this order is why real development has eluded Nigeria and many other African countries.

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Kingsley Moghalu

@MoghaluKingsley

7 Sep

Driving one day in Geneva years ago, I met a “traffic jam” at a popular junction. Everyone was maneuvering to get ahead. Chaos. Car horns were honking (unbelievable!). Was I in Lagos? The problem: both the traffic light and the traffic camera that catches violations broke down.

Once everyone could see that the mechanism that enforced order and accountability wasn’t functioning, human nature took over. An illuminating moment. The Swiss are an ordered society. But that’s because the law is enforced if you break it.If you break a traffic rule you won’t

see police anywhere except there is an accident. But the cameras capture your vehicle number and you promptly received notice of a fine in your mail box. If you fail to pay it, life can get, well, uncomfortable and complicated! That’s how and why functioning societies work.

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