Showing posts with label Preston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preston. Show all posts

Saturday, October 19, 2013

“Abuja Was Not Built On A Stolen Land, Your Claim About Nigeria Is Idiotic” – Nigerian Lambastes BBC’s Alex Preston



This article is in reply to BBC writer Alex Preston‘s controversial article about Abuja being anunfinished capital of Nigeria and how it was built on a stolen land. If you missed the initial article written by Alex, read it HERE.

Check out what Nigerian writer Stanley Nwabia wrote in reply to the aforementioned article:

The real question is, can a city ever be termed as being ‘completed’ or ‘finished’? Talk less of a 35 year old Abuja built from scratch by Nigerians-a city without any colonial heritage unlike the coastal, unplanned and exploitative West African cities that the British left behind as at independence.

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