Alexandria Ocasio – Cortez and 5 Lessons for Nigeria’s Future Political Leaders
On Tuesday, 6th November 2018, Alexandria Ocasio – Cortez, aged 29 years old, a half Puerto-Rican, born in the Bronx district of New York to a Bronx Dad and a Puerto Rican Mum, made history, to become America’s youngest woman ever elected to Congress, breaking the record set by Elise Stefanik who was 30 years old when elected, incidentally from the same New York but different districts. Another spectacular thing about Alexandria’s election is that she also is the first person of colour to represent the Bronx, a district where over 70% of her population are people of colour, yet they have never had a person of colour represent them in Congress. Her election is clearly a loud statement by millennials globally, and arguably, another after-effect of the #Metoo movement. More importantly, it holds lessons for the youth of the most populous black nation in the world, and the nation with the biggest youth population per national population, in Africa – The Federal Republic of