Nigeria: a land of shame
Victor Okafor
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Maybe, there should be a special place reserved in hell for those who support this sort of ill report: “ Nigeria: a land of shame”
It's definitely the sort of thing that makes some people go hmmm :
Now if an oyibo said that sort of thing, he would be accused of “racism “
When Trump said “s-hole country”, a miscreant of the same ilk was unhappy.
When we can't successfully conduct simple elections is it any wonder that it’s not only some oyibo who sneer, “ they can’t even conduct free and fair elections '. Isn't this the kind of perceived failure that adds up to oyibos’ racist attitudes?
The same kind of Nigerian spoilers who caused some of the minor disruptions in the last elections wants to exacerbate the disruptions during the gubernatorial elections in order to discredit them and give Nigeria a bad name
A chronic, narcissistic attention-seeker wants you to take him seriously because he thinks that he is important (VIP) and that whatever he says should be given serious consideration when in fact he’s just another “walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Big mouth said that if his anointed one does not win the Nigerian Presidential elections he will “renounce his Nigerian citizenship”. He could even go and hang himself from the nearest poplar tree and he won’t even be given a state funeral over there in his Southernmost State in Savannah, Georgia
Some perspective:
On the 3rd of February 1960, Harold Macmillan made his famous Wind of Change Speech, in which he declared, “The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact”
Among the British colonies in Africa, the Republic of South Africa ceased being a British colony on May 31, 1910, Egypt had gained Independence by Feb. 28, 1922, Libya, Dec. 24, 1951, Sudan, Jan. 1, 1956, Ghana, March 6, 1957, Somalia became Independent on July 1, 1960, Nigeria became politically Independent on 1st October 1960, Sierra Leone, a few months later, on 27th April 1961, British Cameroon ( North), June 1, 1961, British Cameroon (South), Oct. 1, 1961, Tanzania, Dec. 9, 1961, Uganda, Oct. 9, 1962, Kenya, Dec. 12, 1963, Malawi, July 6, 1964, Zambia, Oct. 24, 1964, Gambia, Feb. 18, 1965, Botswana, Sept. 30, 1966, Lesotho, Oct. 4, 1966, Mauritius, March 12, 1968, Swaziland, Sept. 6, 1968, Seychelles, June 29, 1976, Zimbabwe, April 18, 1980
( African Independence timeline by country)
There's the most important African Diaspora in the Caribbean - starting with HAITI (1804)
( British Caribbean island colonies Independence timeline by country )
With Independence for some folks, great expectations were etched into their consciousness; for some others, the main big change that occurred was the Union jack was brought down and the flag of their newly independent country was raised and started flapping in the air.
Some folks may be wondering what's etched on the other side of the coin, and on the other side of the old or new naira, the new national currency where it’s written in some angelic invisible ink :
“ Say no to corruption:
Say it out loud :
I’m Black and Proud.
Say it out loud,
I’m black and proud.”
Nigerian pastors love quoting the Hebrew Bible’s Jeremiah 31: 32
“For this is the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will place My law in their midst and I will inscribe it upon their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be My people.”
For some strange reason, Nigerian pastors believe that Jeremiah was talking about them
Victor Okafor
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