"Nigeria is what is what it is because it leaders are not what they should be". | Chinua Achebe
I honestly believe that life will give us whatever we ask of it.
Napoleon Hill said, “Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.”
It takes pains to stay a third world country, we might as well choose to take the pain to become a first world nation . We have paid a price to maintain poverty and suffering, but we might as well pay the same price to maintain affluence and success as a nation.
Africa was always called the Dark Continent, not because of the colour of the skin, but because of the poverty of their minds. But the time has come for us to make the difference and we will.
Life will never pay us more than we bargain for. Life is as hard as it is because we have decided to settle for less than we know we deserve. We congregate around the strong in a bid for safety and security. But this has only led us one place, and that is where we are today.
And as you know social relationships automatically define themselves in relation to strength and weakness; leadership and follower-ship, because of the human tendency to protect or seek protection.
And so, the weaker congregate around the stronger to be protected. And this feeling of security heightens the weaker’s ability to function socially. And so, naturally, the stronger demands further submission and allegiance, while defining the limits of freedom of the weaker of the species. This ought not to be so.
In the words of a great Man, "Democracy is beautiful, if and when a State achieves nationhood. Until and unless a State has transited from statehood to nationhood, the gains of democracy, if at all present, will be minimal. And this is the dilemma of many African countries who have embraced democracy.
Many in their bid to salvage their situation championed nationalism instead of pursuing nationhood. It is made clear that nationhood and nationalism are neither synonymous nor do they serve the same purpose.
Though nationalism in its true and positive sense is laudable, it is important for us to realize that in our world today, savage nationalism is the same spirit of racism, resulting in such despicable acts of the American black history, South African Apartheid, and ethnic cleansing of Eastern Europe, and [Central] Africa’s Rwanda.
These evil are the result of nationalism where it is defined by blood, language, culture and history. We have to realize that nationalism, where it is so defined by our relationship through language, or culture or blood, has only led men to their untimely graves and fractured societies.
Our nation will not escape such fractures if we define ourselves according to our historical origins rather than our purpose, our vision. This perversion of Nationalism is the absence of national purpose; in many nations today, through Nationalism, we have a disguised resurgence of medieval tribal wars.
