Time for Biafra to Rise Again

This Yara-crisis is getting out of hand, and the more I think about it the more I believe the man is long gone and the 'kingmakers' are in a constitutional quandary as to how to expunge the current VP, Goodluck Jonathan, and install another Northern ruler. The longer the nation hangs in the balance leaderless, the closer we get to a major irreversible crisis. I personally I am not opposed to this. Enough is Enough. The North has to go. We've been marginalized for too long. How much can the people of Nigeria take? How can we keep on letting the least amongst us continue to be overlords over us and control the very resources that we stand, walk, sit, and sleep on day and night? I say time's up, and Yaradua might just be the catalyst that Biafra has been waiting for. And this time it might not just be Biafra, there might be Oduduwa, Izon, and so on and so forth. The more the merrier.

The experiment called Nigeria has failed woefully and its time to move on. Lets all go our separate ways. We are way too different to coexist. People make the mistake of assuming that because we all have the same skin color that we all act and think alike. Big mistake. Some of us are like day and night. The experiment of Lord Lugard and his British Empire has failed woefully. The hypothesis has been nullified. This hypothesis is similar to postulating that Britain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia, Russia, Turkey, etc can all coexist under the same physical and cultural borders as one state, with the leader always emerging from Turkey. Can you imagine that picture? That is Nigeria.

Its time for everyone to go their separate ways and establish their own unique identities and niche in the world. Foreigners look at Nigerians and assume that we are all the same. Some assume we are all loud and obnoxious, some think we are all boasters, fraudsters, scammers, etc etc etc And now thanks to Farouk AbdulMutallab we have even been classified on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism along with countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia. I am from the South, and I am not a Muslim, so what do I have to do with Islam or terrorism? Why do I have to bear this scourge? Enough. It's time for Biafra I say. The time is now. Where is MASSOB when you need them? How long are we going to sit down and be content with mediocrity? It gets to a point where your life is not worth living if you can't live it with basic human dignity. This is getting embarrassing; 50 years and nothing to show for it. Its time to pick up the sword, machete, gun, whatever, and if the ruling elite don't want it then off with their heads. Let everyone fend for himself. The South is sick of breastfeeding this country with nothing to show for it. When a woman has a baby, she breastfeeds it, and eventually that child grows up into an adult, and takes care of mama. Nigeria has been breastfed for way too long and is showing no signs of growing up. It's time to dump this baby. This baby has been sucking breast milk for 50 years and is now in a state of coma. This baby obviously has the symptoms of growth retardation. How many mothers will continue to breastfeed their own babies for so long with such results?

The experiment has failed, it's time for a newer experiment that is backed with a more sound hypothesis and some empirical data. Look at all the great countries of the world and you will notice one thing; they all have a unifying language and culture. And that language and culture is not foreign to them. So do not tell me that we have English. It's even a shame that I have to write this in English. You can argue that some of the great countries have more than one language or culture, true, but they do not have 250 different languages and cultures! And they all have one major indigenous official language, even if they might have 3, 4 or 5 minor languages and cultures. The monstrosity that is Nigeria with over 250 languages and cultures is a giant failure. The Europeans carved out Africa in the 19th century purely for their own economic gain. They had no regard for the local cultures; they simply 'shared' the continent amongst themselves for their own profit. That's why you will find Yorubas on both sides of the border to the West of Nigeria into Benin and Togo and Fulanis all across West Africa stretching from Nigeria to Ghana and beyond. These are all different cultures with different identities, who do not all seek the same results or solutions. These cultures have all been forced to coexist or in other cases been split across artificial boundaries. Europe did not care, but we do, and we see now that it is not working and will not work. We are no more in the jungle running around naked with bones in our noses, we've all been educated and it is time to chart our own destiny. We can't sit down and wait for 'AID' from Britain and USA. That era is over. Why should they even help us? So we can compete with them? We have all the resources and brainpower to be just as powerful, just as successful, and just as great as them if only we applied ourselves. But easy money from oil wealth has made us apathetic to progress and hard work. We are just comfortable with milking the oil profits. We adapt to any situation with no resistance. No light? We buy generators. No water? We dig bore-holes, No roads? We buy 'Jeeps'. SAD.

All of this mediocrity can be tied to the fact that there's no real identity with Nigerians. I'm a Nigerian really means nothing except that you belong to a collection of several different hundred tribes in the same geographical location. There's no real associated pride with belonging to a culture. Even the tiny shred of culture that we have managed to strand together as a sovereign nation has evaporated. The prevailing culture especially among the youth in Nigeria is American culture - gleaned form MTV and the lowest common denominator of American entertainment culture. There is no concrete foundation for the youth to sink their roots in and develop. That is why we get blown each and every way the tide blows. No identity. Most kids born in Nigeria today, who live in Nigeria, cannot speak nor understand their own languages! Contrast that with Latin American or Asian American kids born and raised in America who are bi-lingual - fluent in both their parents languages and the language of their adopted country!

Now if we had several sovereign entities come out of this monstrosity called Nigeria and each with a unique and homogeneous identity then we will start to see a sense of belonging and national pride. Maybe parents and kids won't be ashamed to learn or speak their own languages for fear of being teased by some imbecile kid from another culture who only speaks English and thinks you are not civilized, because you understand and speak your own language. With a sense of identity and pride then there will be motivation to do more for your nation and to apply yourself more. Without it you will have the mediocrity that is Nigeria today, where a national culture is almost non-existent, and we are easily swayed by whatever comes on American or British Television.

With the Yaradua crisis unfolding I hope this is the catalyst we've been waiting for to make that giant leap. If it happens it will not be pretty and lives will be lost, but nothing good comes easy. For America to be truly great lives were lost in the Revolutionary War as well as the Civil war. Both wars were fought on principle and the principled prevailed each time. There can be no real revolution without bloodshed. While we do not pray for bloodshed it is a necessity for us to reach the Promised Land. Rawlings did it in Ghana. He sanitized the ruling elite with the sword, and now Ghana has now overtaken Nigeria in development and leaving us in their wake. Nigerian kids go to school now in Ghana and even Togo. Are we without shame? Yaradua is most likely done. The 1999 constitution says the next person in line for the presidency is Vice President Goodluck Jonathan (as much as I can't stand his wimpy ass). Are we going to sit down and watch these same shameless power-huggers bamboozle us again and do nothing about it? This is the time. Pick up your swords. It's time for WAR. It's DO or DIE. It's time to stand up and be counted. Nzogbu, Nzogbu, Enyimba, Enyi!