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Thursday, November 01, 2007
Indeed we are genetically stupid
Last friday during a lecture on vaccines, the professor boldly indicated NIGERIA as the one country in the world where polio is YET to be eradicated. I felt so ashamed to be a Nigerian that day. On what grounds could i have convinced the audience that day that indeed blacks are intelligent?
I am of the belief that God must have created us more for comic relief and to provide free labour and a willing gullible market for imported goods.If our continent was to experience 1/10th of the earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and wild fires that other nations face we would long have ceased to exist. Ordinary bar beach overflowing its banks and the entire VI comes to a standstill. . . and yet we claim to be intelligent.

Our governors are routinely guests of the police in foreign countries, the presidential jet is now known to be used as a means of laundering illegally acquired wealth . . . while the British can boast of the likes of Winston Churchill, all we have to show for 8 yrs of "democracy" is Andy Uba and Alhaji Adedibu!
The Greeks gave us democracy, we have given the world 419 and amala politics!

200,000 blacks in Darfur have been killed, millions displaced while our leaders fold their arms waiting for the EU and UN to provide funds and peacekeeping troops . . . and we disagree with Watson
Zimbabwe holds the world record for the highest rate of inflation recorded, Mugabe has just signed a law that will give him the powers to choose a successor. Somalia has remained a lawless piece of land since 1991 with no end in sight to the bloodletting . . . and we claim to be intelligent!
Our leaders run to London anytime they sprain their knees, tummy tucks are now the favorite past time of those we call leaders, others renovate new houses with N628m . . . while millions of children go to school with no food in their stomachs and with trees for classrooms. . . and yet we argue that we are intelligent.

In a nation of 140million, we have only produced one university graduate for president, a hair dresser is speaker of the house of assembly and holders of dubious diplomas parade the corridors of power . . . and we cry about being intelligent.

Malaysia came here to pick oil palm seeds, today they are the world's largest producers of oil palm. Somebody will still shed crocodile tears that we are intelligent.
 
posted by david at 9:14 PM ¤ Permalink ¤


5 Comments:


  • At Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:41:00 PM, Blogger Omodudu

    Please do not give up yet..please..

     

  • At Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:09:00 AM, Blogger Orikinla Osinachi.

    American Naijarian,
    Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua is the first Nigerian graduate to become President of Nigeria.
    The American trained Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of Nigeria, regardless of what people or historians say.

    Lest your forget, Nigeria was not so downgraded until IBB came and destroyed the ethics of governance in Nigeria.

    As the Holy Bible said:
    "If the foundation is destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

    Here the link to a serious discussion which only few Nigerians are even contributing to and it the buzz of the IT world since last Wednesday.

    http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006340o-2000493267b,00.htm

    You can find it on Google News as well if you do not want to read it on my ZDNet blog, since you said I like blowing my trumpet.

    Cheers aand God bless always.

     

  • At Monday, November 05, 2007 7:59:00 AM, Blogger guerreiranigeriana

    i am with omodudu...don't give up!!!...remember, the continent has gone through things no other continent has experienced...colonization and trans-atlantic slave trade...the europeans and americans still have their hands meddling in our stewpots...the chinese have recently added their own hands....are our leaders to blame?...of course...but remember, many of the leaders who were educated and tried to run nigeria were sacked with coups...check your history, the real history...remember what happened to kwame nkrumah?...i don't believe that those coups and disruptions were accidental/coincidental/uninfluenced/supported by outside powers who would rather see things a certain way...we are intelligent people...don't allow the media to allow you to think otherwise...no one country is practicing democracy, not even this so-called us of america...ask the greeks and romans where they got most of what the world claims they gave us....even the romans and greeks admit in their writings that the egyptians gave them a lot and i don't mean the white skinned ones either...when they discussed why nigeria still has not eradicated polio, did they tell you why and all the problems there have been?...i'm not shedding crocodile tears...i'm preparing for battle, as should you because that is what it will take to free us from the grips of the money-hungry, greedy, racist bastards who seek to keep nigeria as is...africa will be free, africa will be nice...sending you hope...

     

  • At Monday, November 05, 2007 3:55:00 PM, Blogger SOLOMONSYDELLE

    I understand your frustration. It is justified. I think that as a people, we have given others room to insult and degrade us. However, Nigeria remains the land love and thus I must find my own little way to improve it and change the minds of those who choose to not know my people.

    I wish you luck on your journey and encourage you to have hope.

     

  • At Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:10:00 PM, Anonymous nomad

    There's a profound lack of trust in the far North (with Polio vaccinations) which is understandable when you put the Pfizer incident on the table. It's sad but it should ease your sense of shame next time.

     
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