nigerianness

I didn't realize just how much so this applied to us Nigerians until recently with the fuel scarcity issue. The Statistician General, Dr. Yemi Kale @sgyemikale was reporting on the labor force numbers. He not only reported the numbers but also a brief explanation of how the unemployment numbers are derived...supply and demand. In comes the Children of Anger (coined by the eloquent Olufunke Phillips) interpreting the data with their trauma. Quickly, the data was influenced by Buhari and the govt. Anger took over and the value of the information was almost lost.

Nigerians have suffered traumatic experiences at the hands of their elected government. But it really is a case of doing ourselves. But for some reason, we remain in that traumatic place. The land may be fertile, the road paved, the flowers blooming, but we cannot let go of that trauma. Our entire identity becomes that trauma. We have trust issues and we panic. We don't know who we are, and we are content blaming and whining and complaining while submitting our request for a savior.

And I'm tired of the whiners and complainers. So I'll channel my energy on those who choose to be active rather than those who want to stay suffering.