Cheta Nwanze

Cheta Nwanze is a Nigerian partner at SBM Intelligence, researcher, and columnist. Here are notable quotes from his essays and political commentary.https://chxta.medium.com/on-disagreements-5357243d084a?hl=en-US#:~:text=Perspective%2C%20in%20real%20terms%20is%20very%20simple,have%20different%20ways%20of%20approaching%20that%20solution. Quotes Perspective, in real terms is very simple — we can both be looking at the same thing, but from different positions, which means that there is a slight difference to what we see.https://chxta.medium.com/on-disagreements-5357243d084a?hl=en-US#:~:text=Perspective%2C%20in%20real%20terms%20is%20very%20simple,have%20different%20ways%20of%20approaching%20that%20solution. Every great idea has to undergo refinement before it gets better. Refinement can only happen when the idea is put up for scrutiny, and coldly, sometimes brutally torn to pieces, holes picked, filled with other ideas, then put together again. There is no other way. https://chxta.medium.com/on-disagreements-5357243d084a?hl=en-US#:~:text=Every%20great%20idea%20has%20to%20undergo%20refinement,Let's%20learn%20to%20disagree%2C%20without%20being%20disagreeable. Disagreements are not a bad thing. Being disagreeable, is bad. Let's learn to disagree, without being disagreeable.” https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/444046-saving-the-igbo-homeland-from-enemies-within-by-cheta-nwanze.html?hl=en-US#:~:text=But%20as%20I%20said%2C%20this%20isn't%20about,belonging%20to%20our%20ethnicities%20of%20all%20guilt. This is one of the beauties of this democracy thing that we have decided to import. It gives everyone a chance to talk. It also gives everyone a chance to be heard. Sadly, in our country, we have developed a habit of wanting to talk, and then attempting to push our own narrative, as if it is the only valid narrative.” https://maxsiollun.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/it-is-a-must-read-cheta-nwanze-reviews-soldiers-of-fortune/?hl=en-US#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20entirety%20of%20chapter%20two%20is%20devoted,mix%20of%20anger%2C%20enlightenment%2C%20irritation%20and%20regret.%E2%80%9D Two of our greatest failings as a people are our penchant for apportioning collective guilt and for absolving those belonging to our ethnicities of all guilt.https://ynaija.com/cheta-nwanze-lets-not-distracted/?hl=en-US The levels of poverty have turned people against one another, and a rudderless government has made it worse. Demagogues are rising to fill the gaps.https://maxsiollun.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/it-is-a-must-read-cheta-nwanze-reviews-soldiers-of-fortune/?hl=en-US The time to have started doing that was yesterday. We can't afford to let our region become the centre of a scorched earth insurrection. When you have statements from government officials that clearly imply they are taking sides in these quarrels, then no one should be surprised when people start to take the law into their hands.https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/444046-saving-the-igbo-homeland-from-enemies-within-by-cheta-nwanze.html?tztc=1 The economy, not the judges, the Shiites, or Madam Buhari's bedroom, is our problem. There are two kinds of pain: the kind that while it is painful, will get us to a cure; and the kind that while it is painful, leads to perdition.” People... are tired of what they are seeing, but, crucially, are ripe for distraction. The issue now is this — are they being given the right kind of distraction? I fear not, and I fear that the distractions that are being acted out, are of the type that will come back to haunt us. One thing that this book has done for me is to elevate my thinking. It has left me with a mix of anger, enlightenment, irritation and regret. When my fiancée saw me hugging my e-book reader, she asked what could possibly be in 336 pages of politics that had me so engrossed and disinterested in anything else. The answer: a great era of my country's history, and presented in a very readable manner. References