What is going on Nigeria?

[Victor Okafor]

https://youtu.be/GWXN7KDTUsA?si=JLlExINQSQmFbAGJ

Sincerely,

Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies (DAAAS)

Eastern Michigan University

Email: vok...@emich.edu

https://www.emich.edu/aaas/faculty/v-okafor.php

https://www.facebook.com/DAAASEMU/

Tel: 734.487.3463 

Food for Thought: 

“I myself do not judge a man [or a woman] by  the color of his [or her] skin. The yardstick that I use to judge a man [or a woman] is his [ or her] deeds, his [her] behavior,  and his [or her] intentions. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. And, every time you let someone stand on your head and you don’t do anything about it, you are not acting with intelligence and should not be on this earth—you won’t be on this earth very long either." -- Malcolm X.

[ogunlakaiye]

Sometimes ago, the Nigerian writer, Teju Cole, asserted that "the fastest growing industry in the US is the WHITE SAVIOUR INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX," and he buttressed it in a series of tweets. Tweeting, he said, "The white saviour supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by  (white man's) enthusiasm. This world exists simply to satisfy the needs - including importantly, the sentimental needs - of white people. The White Saviour Industrial Complex is not about Justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. I deeply respect American (U.S.A.) sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know, it is deadly. (Quoted by Dipo Faloyin in his book titled, "Africa Is not A Country)."

Donald Trump is not sending U.S.A., soldiers to Nigeria to combat insurgents and bandits he has branded as Islamists committing genocide on Christians. If Donald Trump wants to help Nigeria to fight insurgents and bandits, he should send military hardware to equip, particularly, the Nigerian Army. The deployment of American soldiers in Nigeria is for other purpose than combating Islamist insurgents and bandits, supposedly and allegedly, killing only Nigerian Christians. It must be recalled that the U.S.A., for many years had a large drone base in Agadez, Niger Republic. After the military take over of the government by the military under the leadership of General Abdourahamane Tchiani in July 2023, the base was closed down and the 800 US troops were expelled. Since then, the US had no ground troops in West Africa. The military Juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have declared their countries' independence from the neo-colonial Western Powers which is not acceptable to the leader of Western World, the U.S.A. Nigeria may now be used as a springboard to topple, firstly, the government of Niger Republic that shares boundaries with seven states in Northern Nigeria and later governments of Burkina Faso and Mali.

Based on a CIA report in 2005, the former US ambassador to Nigeria then, John Campbell, predicted that Nigeria would dissolve as a country in 2015 as a result of ethnic and sectarian tensions. If President Donald Trump can depict the dark-skinned Christian and former President of the U.S.A., Barack Obama, and his wife as monkeys, on what ground does he stand to declare love for the dark-skinned Nigerian Christians for whose sake he is sending American soldiers to defend them?

S. Kadiri