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I have not been able to stop thinking about this small French child at the aquarium that walked i.e up next to us grabbing his mom's hand, pointed at a starfish, and said "Mama! Patrique!"
I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I think I finally understand why nobody is truly willing to fight for Nigeria.
We have no real nationalism.
Not the shallow flag waving kind I mean the deep kind. The kind that makes you feel like what happens to a stranger in Kano is your problem too even though you’ve never left Lagos
And it makes sense when you think about it. Nigeria was never built around shared identity. No culture of honouring sacrifice. No moment where Nigeria looked at the people who bled for it and said we see you and that is why bad leaders will keep winning.
Ronaldo won a Ballon d’Or before he was valued at €100 million.
Suárez won the Premier League Golden Boot before his €80 million move.
Bale won a trophy with Tottenham and scored 26 goals in a season before his €100 million transfer.
Meanwhile, Diomande and Kroupi have fewer than 65 senior club goals combined, yet they’re valued at around €130 million each
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