Beyond the barrel: The tourism imperative (1), by Abiodun Komolafe Nigeria is at the moment in a precarious position, teetering like a heavy toddler due to the instability of its monocrop economy. The country's heavy dependence on crude (not even refined) petroleum exports exposes a cumulative effect of defective political economies and the complacency of the ruling elite who have been trained as to how not to think. It also reminds one of the stage-like observations of Robert Nester Marley, that in the midst of water, the fool goes thirsty. Nigeria's...