Monday, 13 March 2017
HOW TO BE NIGERIAN NO. 9
-Be of different tribes
Nigeria is said to have about 100 languages, that's a lot right? I wouldn't want to go into the history of Nigeria, I'd just say that the northern and southern protectorates that got amalgamated in 1914 birthed the nation Nigeria. Several years and civil wars down the line, the major ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and the Yoruba. Enough with the history. But then, can we really separate the past from d present? How would we try to predict the future then?
It's not enough that we have to face racism, xenophobia or whatever else, we have decided to go against one another within our nation. Don't pity us, oh please don't. It's something we have to do. Aunty Flora and uncle Lugard must be turning in their graves now, watching their 'wards' turn against one another. They have to suffer for what they have done to us, it really doesn't matter that they are dead.
Being Igbo, the nation would not survive without us. We are the entrepreneurs, Yet we do not get preferential treatment. If not for daddy Johnathan, we wouldn't have even gotten the seat of power. All these Afonja people and their lousiness. They only know how to shout and sit on the legs of their fat wives.
We, the ndi Igbo make the country move forward. There is nothing produced on earth that we can't produce but they would rather buy things made in other countries calling them Aba made. Smh. Why not invest in us rather than waste your lazy breath in criticism. As for the Arewa, there's nothing more to say than good riddance.
Let's not dwell on the other majority and minority schools of thought, we would just draw your attention to the fights currently going on amongst the three major tribes, chiefly between the Yoruba and the Hausa in Ile-ife, Osun State, in Bariga, Lagos state. Not to talk of the several ones in history.
To be Nigerian, be tribal. Believe your tribe is better than the other and in extreme situations, be violent. When you see a wedding invitation that says Essien weds Mohammed make sure your immediate reaction is OMG!!! Calabar and Hausa marriage, how did that happen? That reaction is however getting better as the centuries go by. You have options: IPOB, AREWA, OPC amongst other. Make choices. Stay tribal. Be Nigerian.
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Tribalism has eaten so deep into our system, it's not looking like that's ever going to change
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