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Ubuntu

We have somehow mastered the evil art of crying foul like
victims and at the same time will not stop sleeping in the
same bed with the victimizer. Hypocrites of the worst or-
der! No one should bite with his teeth the very meat he
forbids. That is simply treacherous. For if we are not care-
ful we will just be like the foolish Boko Haram sect whose
ideology says “modern education is an abomination” but at
the same time they use the weapons and the technology that
the “modern abomination” created, to fight their so-called
holy war for their holy god. Foolishness of the highest order!

Afrikanism and the subject of emancipating Afrika must not be
subjected to such madness of the mind and hypocritical reason-
ing. For instance, we were at the Nigerian High Commission in
Nairobi sometime back in 2018 or so to renew Samuel’s pass-
port. As we waited at the reception, there were other Nigerians
also waiting and also some Kenyans who came for travel docu-
ments. As we sat there, the Nigerians were conversing, talking
about the state of Nigeria as a nation. We say conversing, but
it was more like complaining about what this government or
that government has not done. We just sat listening to all the
rants. Then one of the guys brought out bitter kola nut as they
call it in Nigeria. He started peeling the skin of the nut onto
the floor and eating the flesh. Samuel noticed that, after he was
done, he did not clean the mess he had made on the floor.

That is when Samuel started speaking to them about how fool-
ish it is to complain of what the government has done, or has
not done when even they - the citizens - are also not acting
responsibly. He cited the issue of the guy that left peels of
his bitter kola nut on floor as an act of irresponsibility, telling
them that as citizens of Nigeria, the Nigerian High Commis-

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