This week, I am reproducing an opinion I wrote a couple of years ago, which I think is still relevant today. However, I did a little editing to make room for emerging realities.
Yes, who is really after the north? Though I have had cause in the past to ask a similar question, I feel there is no better time to repeat the question than now, when all odds are against the region.
Just take a look, a critical one please, at the north as a region. You sure will not miss the picture of a region surrounded by actions and inactions that are clearly meant to weaken an area hitherto known for its different strengths.
With an interesting narrative that documents a history of divine intervention, grace and sheer mastery, the north has enjoyed a monopoly of what it takes to be, and remain central to factors of national relevance. And, this is thick enough to tickle in other regions a feeling of irrelevance that is actually a direct result of their collective inaction.