KEN UGBECHIE
Last week, my alma mater, St. Anthony’s College, Ubulu-Uku in Delta State marked its Diamond Jubilee having been planted in 1956 in a thickly forested and hilly community. The nostalgic event was anchored by the Old Boys’ association of the school and it was an auspicious platform to relive the moments of years gone by, to reunite with old friends and reflect on the dreams of the missionaries (Catholics) who founded a school in a rustic community whose only defining emblems were the thick tropical forests, the lush verdant of greenery and the assortment of wild animals that hummed, howled and chirped from shrubs and warrens in the peaceful and serene neighbourhood.
Just sixty years of existence, no big deal. But it is a big deal not in the number of years the school has grossed but in its metaphorical exemplification of the rot that has blighted the nation’s education sector. Today, the school may not even amount to as much as a dot in the map of schools in Delta State but yesterday, it was the undisputed benchmark for academic...
St. Anthony’s College as a metaphor
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