Nigeria, March 2 -- Much has been said and written since President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida's book, A Journey In Service: An Autobiography, was launched.

As to be expected, the reviews are interesting and the commentary has been in some cases good, in some bad and in some ugly.

This is a healthy development because the worst that one can do to a book or an essay is to ignore it.

Whether you agree with it's contents or not or whether you like the author or not is not the point: what makes it worth writing is the commentary that follows and the oftentimes divided opinions.

This, more than anything else, makes the literary contribution a success, and as the saying goes: it is better for it to be spoken about, even in negative terms, th...