Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and arguably its largest economy, is heading to the polls. It's a good time to celebrate democracy - but also to ponder what has become of the country since it wrestled independence from the clutches of colonial Britain in 1960.
To do this, I find it helpful to consider what some of Nigeria's most celebrated cultural icons, among them musician, commentator and activist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - about whose political messaging I have written - the novelist Chinua Achebe and writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, might say about their country if they were alive today.
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