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Towards a New Nigeria
Paperback
Publisher: Obinna Izeogu Design
Published: Aug 14 2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Towards a New Nigeria begins by framing the systemic challenges in Nigeria. In the book, Obinna Izeogu lays out the nine essential problems Nigeria faces. They are poverty, the economy, gender equality, a poor standard of education, unemployment, health and human services, crime and terrorism, corruption, and the environment. Izeogu argues in the book that these problems are interrelated and must be seen as such. He emphasizes the role other nations can play: the examples of which types of policies could benefit Nigeria. He discusses the importance of creating a circular economy. The various systems that can help move away from the take, make, and waste linear mode of production. Instead, value can be seen as a service within circular models.
Thinking in terms of relationships, we find the role of nature where there is no waste. Izeogu argues that benchmarks and indices can act as set points critical to development that can be fined tuned through measurement.
The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are called out as an example to guide Nigeria in its effort to end poverty along with improving health and education. He goes on to discuss the European Manifesto which takes on the approach of aligning policy-making with strategies that are regenerative in circular frameworks moving toward a new economy of resource efficiency.
Izeogu takes a direct approach and identifies who the key stakeholders are: local, state, and federal government along with Africa as a whole, humanity, and ultimately nature. He uses the world's fair in Hannover, Germany (Expo 2000) to illustrate principles for sustainability continuing the theme of learning from the international community.
In a crucially important section of the book, Izeogu argues that Nigeria as a country is a system: the Nigeria system which needs to work holistically with all its interdependent parts: the economy, the environment, and the society. These parts work in a relationship with each other. For example, the economy affects the education system which goes on to affect and be affected by society.
Life-cycle analysis is a key point. Izeogu gives the example of oil and gas extraction and how it affects Nigeria as a system. The larger context of the oil and gas sector needs to be considered in terms of the impact it has on the economy: what happens when renewable energy becomes the dominant way countries receive energy? In an economy tethered to the fluctuations of the oil and gas sector, the increasing dependence of the Nigerian economy on oil and gas revenue needs to be modeled and scenarios need to be developed to address the critical point when the shift occurs to renewable energy. How does that affect its society, the economy, and the environment? This scenario needs to be modeled for all sectors in the country that contribute to the GDP of the country.
In chapter seven of the book, Izeogu takes a vanguard approach to policy-making. He discusses the use of swarm intelligence as an example of how Nigeria can radically transform its economy, society, and its environment. He outlines the biological principles of swarm intelligence. The emergent behavior of a swarm is collective intelligence. The use of self-assembly and self-organization as principles that govern interdependent local components which coordinate, collaborate, cooperate, and deliberate provides a way of thinking about policy-making. Here, Izeogu is writing about the relationship between the community (the Local Government Area) and the individual (the citizen). The most advanced research in artificial intelligence also employs using swarms not only for data collection in a swarm but also for decision-making. Izeogu asks the question: can Nigeria benefit from a decentralized bottom-up civic innovation policy informed by swarm intelligence?
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