Nigeria at 53

Sorry to all the prospective readers but I wrote this in agitation so my ideas are all jumbled. I just sorta dumped it all at once! But as I post more, you’ll understand more.

So, we’re used to the trend of Nigerians being irritated by you or angry at you for speaking the truth. It’s actually a pretty natural phenomenon. For some strange unknown reason {or maybe it’s known but I have no idea about it}, Africans just don’t like facing the hard truths and reality of things. You know this because you have had a few experiences. But there’s a big difference between avoiding truths and being willfully ignorant of that big green, white and green dick being shoved up your asses! We believe in the dream of the future of Nigeria. Well, it’s called the Nigerian dream because you have to be asleep to believe that pile of shitload! Every adult around us is involved in ancestral cycle of deeply rooted ignorance. They’re all totally misled by teachings they’ve had since they were little. See, it’s easier to educate an illiterate than to re-teach the mis-educated. Now I’m not talking about education in the literal sense of the word. We have heard it said more than enough times that it is madness to do a thing the same way and expect a different result, yeah? What’s that thing we are doing differently to expect a different result? We preach consistency and rigidity, yet, we expect to get different results?! I think, being consistent and adamant to change requires you to be as ignorant today as you were yesterday. Science tells us that we can always see our nose… our brain just decides to ignore it. Could this be the same case with the problems plaguing us?! That something is true today doesn’t mean it will be true forever! The ‘elders’ of this land don’t seem to realize that! They base their opinions and decisions on the things they heard or experienced from childhood.

Really there’s no shame in ignorance. We are not born with pre-ordained knowledge! But we have been given the ability to attain such knowledge. The world is dynamic… we are supposed to move along with the age we find ourselves in. Why are we so bent on remaining retarded? When we set out on a journey and we already know what we want to learn, we don’t learn anything new. What we learn is what others have learnt before us. “I want to learn to make a plane. I’ll make a lot of planes.” That’s not new! Aren’t you curious to discover the possibilities out there in the world?! I always say, the person who first used the saying ‘Ignorance is bliss’ to defend his obliviousness of knowledge, must have died a very horrible death… with a surprised look on his face!

You always hear, ‘Experience is the best teacher’. Well, different teachers are trained to suit different students. Experience is the best for those who just like getting hurt and love the oblivious abyss they are in. However, the truly smart learn from the teacher called HISTORY. I think of experience as history repeated… so why waste time and suffer experience. The problem is the ignorant ones are the cocky, adamant and sure… the truly intelligent are full of doubt! Please make the change… and don’t just do that. Educate and banish ignorance from our existence!!!