Did you know that despite his unspeakable crimes, King Leopold II was buried with full royal honors in the Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels ?
A church !
You cannot separate Christianity from Colonisation.
Let me tell you what Tinubu wants to do.
Theyโll just collect the data and present it as a KPI, key performance indicator, to prove the Nigerian economy is growing and MSMEs are booming. Meanwhile, in reality, those exact same businesses are suffocating.
You all think these politicians are daft abi? Youโre literally handing them the tools to use against you.
We were programmed since childhood to believe African religion is evil while the European and Arabic religions are holy.
Nollywood also helped to spread the propaganda by depicting African native doctors as evil doers.
Ironically, this heated "Olodo Uprising" conversation is actually a good sign for Nigeria.
Nigeria is finally having its first endogenous, organically-defined culture war over an issue that is intrinsically important to Nigerian society.
Every other culture war that post-colonial Nigeria has fought until now has been imported Yankee slop, or imported religious slop, or both (LGBTQ, 3rd wave Feminism, "sexual liberation", tithing, NYSC hijab, etc).
A society fighting internal culture wars over its own self-defined issues is a society that is finally obtaining an identity of its own. Long may the war continue, and may the olodos suffer crushing defeat that dooms their uprising to the chapters of a Jude Bela historical documentary released in 2045.