The Good Old Days is an interesting novel for general readership, a fiction in simple prose, based on the unfolding real life experiences of a people tinkering with national development but having very little or no meaningful progress to show for it over the four and half decades of their existence as an independent nation, despite nature's bounty and mouth-watering opportunities provided.
The ten chapters of the book portray the nature of mismanagement and the resulting failure or decline very evident in every sector of the economy, as well as the growing sense of loss, disenchantment and nostalgia across the country.
The political leaders' obvious lack of patriotism (well reflected in high level corruption, dishonesty, low work ethics and very expensive style of democratic governance) is seen in the book as the root of the worsening downturn in national development. The book stresses that the evident ominous trend (which is not exogenously determined) will be halted and reversed only when the country's political elite become less self-seeking and more patriotic, less hypocritical and more transparent in performing their various leadership functions.
The ten chapters of the book portray the nature of mismanagement and the resulting failure or decline very evident in every sector of the economy, as well as the growing sense of loss, disenchantment and nostalgia across the country.
The political leaders' obvious lack of patriotism (well reflected in high level corruption, dishonesty, low work ethics and very expensive style of democratic governance) is seen in the book as the root of the worsening downturn in national development. The book stresses that the evident ominous trend (which is not exogenously determined) will be halted and reversed only when the country's political elite become less self-seeking and more patriotic, less hypocritical and more transparent in performing their various leadership functions.
