MIDDLE-CLASS NIGERIANS NOW BEGGING TO SURVIVE – CHIMAMANDA

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MIDDLE-CLASS NIGERIANS NOW BEGGING TO SURVIVE – CHIMAMANDA

Popular Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has decried the worsening economic situation in the country.

Speaking on Channels Television, Adichie lamented how the ongoing hardship reduced middle-class Nigerians into beggars.

She said, “Life has become so hard in Nigeria, and me I can see it. For example, people who were formerly kind of securely middle class, not that life was rosy for them, but they got by—are now people who beg and are in need. That worries me greatly.”

She added that considering the level of suffering in the country, the biggest political judgement should be about the lives of ordinary Nigerian

“The level of suffering, how expensive food has become… I think the biggest political judgment one can make is about the lives of ordinary people.”

Describing the situation as terrible, the novelist wondered how persons earning minimum wage are managing to survive.

“People talk about the stock market. Personally, I don’t really care about those sorts of things. What I care about is: that person earning minimum wage, how is that person getting on in this economy? It’s the suffering that worries me the most. And it’s terrible.”

Although not justifying illegal actions, Adichie warned that hardship could drive people to consider desperate measures they wouldn’t ordinarily think of.

“It’s not to excuse crime, but I think when life gets very hard, even people who before would not have considered certain things suddenly are willing to, and that’s dangerous to society,” she said.

About Dons Eze

DONS EZE, PhD, Political Philosopher and Journalist of over four decades standing, worked in several newspaper houses across the country, and rose to the positions of Editor and General Manager. A UNESCO Fellow in Journalism, Dr. Dons Eze, a prolific writer and author of many books, attended several courses on Journalism and Communication in both Nigeria and overseas, including a Postgraduate Course on Journalism at Warsaw, Poland; Strategic Communication and Practical Communication Approach at RIPA International, London, the United Kingdom, among others.

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