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RE-LEARNING SOCIAL INJUSTICE (JUSTICE)

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Social Justice is a word I first picked from public space. Typically used by a lot of public commentators in the media within our clime. Most of them just assume the listening public understands the meaning. So they often hardly define or explain the word. You could look it up for various dictionaries definition. I will do more to simplify its explanation by basic illustration. Particularly to explain it as; INJUSTICE so that we see more need for functional Justice in every sane society, to ensure law and order, peace and productive progress. Clearly, we can’t get a perfect society in present human world: Imperfect Human Justice in mind here now. However, we would destroy ourselves, our civilization and our society/societies where injustice reign supreme. Now, a very glaring illustration of Social Injustice to us around here is UNDESERVED WEALTH. Illicit Wealth obtained by deliberately depriving others from a Common Wealth (A Wealth Everyone is Expected to Share From). Typi...
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Kenneth Onwuka Dike was born December 17, 1917, in Awka, former Eastern region, Nigeria. He attended Dennis Memorial Grammar school, Onitsha and went on later to Achimota College in Ghana and then to Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. He received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Durham, England and a Master in Arts degree from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Later on, he earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of London. With a PhD from London, Dike became the first African to complete Western historical professional training. At the University College of Ibadan, he became the first African Professor of History and Head of History Department. He founded the Nigerian National Archives, and helped in the founding of the Historical Society of Nigeria. As both a Historian and leader of the University of Ibadan's Post-Graduate School in Nigeria, Dike, according to Michael Crowther was said to have "Nigerianized Nigerian history". Through hi...
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