 Nobel-Red Professor Wally Schoencker says despite Nigeria's many problems, he cannot despair. He believes Nigeria's youth may have the energy and know how to get the troubled country back on track. Schoencker credits young Nigerians between 15 and 35 for trying to fundamentally reform the country. He cites the ends as protest a year ago against police brutality. Schoencker won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, the first black African to do so. Now he's published a new novel, his first, in almost 50 years. It's a parody of the real-life Nigeria of today under the leadership of President Mamada Buhari. In 2015, Schoencker endorsed Buhari for president and asked Nigerians to forgive his past as a former dictator in 1980s, now Schoencker is critical of Buhari. Heidegen is reinventing the wheel. Each ruler comes and says, oh yes, I'm listening to people and they want to change, therefore let's meet and tinker with the constitution rather than go in deep inside and creating fashion in a totally different society than what is there. One of them wants to get into power, it's the same result. The author believes Buhari and his administration have been unable to tackle the extremist violence that's led to thousands of death and the mass kidnappings of school children. They refused to take action at the right time. They compromised, they even retorted the danger, the reality. In other words, they felt that just mere rhetoric could make it go away. Our children were kidnapped and that didn't wake us up and we lost our humanity. The extent that we watch human beings being slaughtered for ritual, we lost our moral bearings.