We’re The Colonials
When Napoleon Hill said “History is a set of lies agreed upon,” I thought, “Not all history”.
However, recently, I’ve been in doubt and seeing more of Napoleon’s POV.
Before I begin ranting as usual, I must say that I’m not into history and have only surface knowledge about the history of my country Nigeria, and 100% shouldn’t even be talking about this, but it’s my space and you’re my audience so…
My country is in mourning, at least so it appears on social media, Twitter especially. Mohbad, an artist that was supposed to be big in the musical industry just died.
Now I don’t want to go into the deets of it because every news about his death doesn’t exactly have a scientific backing or any substantial backing at all and I don’t want to spread controversies.
He was buried roughly and almost immediately after his death. No autopsy, no forensic, no investigation whatsoever.
However, there are so many video clips surfacing showing that whatever netizens have concluded was his cause of death, might 80% be accurate and authorities have to look into it.
Clips like this; https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxJTc8JthQg/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
But…
The question is who are the authorities???
The same ones that made a drug lord the ambassador for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency? Or the ones that ordered a genocide on its citizens on October 20–2020 because they protested peacefully for their rights?
In our early age, we were told stories about Lord Lugard, and how our ancestors were sold as slaves for a mirror or a piece of object. I always wondered why a fellow Nigerian would sell his brother, turns out GREED does a number on us.
The whites were painted to be evil, not saying they’re not, at least they were to our ancestors, I mean you’ve got to be evil to think you deserve to own a fellow human being for a couple of shillings.
However, we Africans, Nigerians especially, are our own evil. The white men colonized us, and now we colonize ourselves.
Our colonial masters sold dreams of freedom if we believe in their God (who’s my God also btw), prosperity if we let them access to our resources and development with more sales of slaves.
As kids our leader sold us dreams as to how we’re important in the country, how we can be leaders, how we have rights, how if we obey the law we’ll be saved, how the police are our friends, how if we get a degree we can get a job and be comfortable.
The similarity between the two is our colonial masters and our leaders, they’re both liars, and history keeps repeating itself as we keep buying into their crap until we’re twenty enough to know it’s all been a whitewashed dream we’ve believed in all our lives.
