Once you’ve been to ABU Zaria, you’ve been to Nigeria It has been almost three decades since I walked out of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, carrying not just a degree but a worldview. Yet whenever I hear the name ABU, a surge of nostalgia rises as fresh as the harmattan breeze that used to sweep through Samaru. ABU is not simply a university. It is an institution, a brand, a federation, and a nation unto itself. It is the place where Nigeria comes together to study, to live, to argue,...