Corruption Biggest Threat To Nigeria : Okri Wasfia Jalali

He comes from a country that has witnessed a traumatising civil war with flashes of unrest still evident, but Ben Okri, the Booker Prize winning Nigerian author describes corruption, and not strife as the biggest threat to his nation.

In fact, the author of the ‘Famished Road’, feels corruption is the biggest problem inflicting the so-called third world countries, and the single biggest hurdle on their path to transformation.

In Jaipur to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author who grew up with a liking for Indian cinema and Amitabh Bachchan, said while in India he feels almost at home, as if he was a reincarnate returning to the land of his past life.

From: http://ping.fm/yBlFP