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WHAT ETON TAUGHT ME THAT NIGERIA FORGOT
The death of institutional memory is the death of nations
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By Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
It is all beginning to make sense.
The cold showers. The rugby played in freezing rain. The terrible food. The beatings. The history lessons hammered into the brain from an early age at the expensive boarding schools of England that moulded British prime ministers like cars off a Ford Factory conveyor belt.
The first thing you are shown on day one at Eton College are the names — written in gold on wooden plaques lining the walls. Hundreds upon hundreds of Old Etonians. Men who died serving their country in both great wars. The First World War killed the crème of British society. The youth was wiped out. Hundreds of Eton boys went from the classroom to the battlefields of France, killed in action in the trenches — most of them officers, armed only with a pistol, leading charges out of the trenches across open fields, mowed down by German machine guns. They died aged eighteen to twenty-two, cut down before they had experienced life.
That is what greets you on your first day.
Then you must memorise everything about the school. Every house name. Every strange custom. Everything within that six-hundred-year-old institution. And they will test you. God forbid you fail. Failure brought shame — dirty looks from the other boys, pointed comments from teachers, terrible peer pressure, and the constant reminder that thousands of other boys were desperate to take your place.
The pressure instilled in you at a young age produces responsibility. The history drummed into your brain produces prime ministers, great generals, and artists. It produces people who do not need to be praised into action. It produces people who simply act.
This is precisely why Nigeria has lost its way.
Nigeria buries its history. It promotes the present — and the present is occupied by criminals.
I have had so many young Nigerian writers contact me to say that until I began writing about my father, they had never heard of the man. They thank me for educating them with the truth. Not the lies. For once, they read the truth — and it lands differently when it is not propaganda.
I am in this position because my father’s role in Nigerian history was unique. In law. In diplomacy. In sport. In business. Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree was a trailblazer by any measure of the word. He was Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General. Its first Acting Attorney-General. Its first Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice. He became the first African Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Chairman of the Nigerian Football Association. And then he became the country’s first independent oil baron.
Young Nigerians ask me: how could one man be the first to lead Nigerian law, then Nigerian sport, then international diplomacy, and then pioneer its oil industry? It is a fair question. It is strange even to me — because he never spoke of his achievements. He simply expected me to fill his shoes. But you cannot walk in a direction without being briefed on the destination.
He was the Attorney-General of British Cameroons. He possessed diplomatic skills that helped keep Nigeria united — which is why General Hassan Katsina was so generous with his polo ponies, and why Yakubu Gowon came to his funeral and delivered that speech. When Gowon was being blamed for the Mohammed coup, only Godfrey Amachree stood by him, financed his defence, represented him, and got the allegations dropped.
What makes all of this different today is that much of this history is documented — in United States State Department files, in United Nations archives, in diplomatic cables now declassified and available to anyone with the discipline to look. This is not mythology. It is verifiable record.
And yet Nigeria buries it.
How can a young Nigerian student look at a man like Wike — with his bragging, his love of the limelight, his thuggery — and feel pride? There is no discipline in that image. There is no aspiration. There is only the spectacle of power without purpose.
I no longer care what anyone says when it comes to my writing about my father. If you doubt his success, ask yourself this: where do you think my confidence comes from? Who gave me the ability to look at a wall and kick it down in contempt? I am a product of years of deliberate formation. One important lesson from all of it is that I do not need to be liked. I like myself. But lost Nigerians need to be loved. They crave the praise. I could do without it. What comes naturally to me needs no applause. I simply want someone to give my people electricity.
And it will be the electricity problem that destroys the Chagoury empire. It will be the darkness — literal and political — that hangs Tinubu and his family out to dry.
Such is the anger in Nigeria among the masses. If the police kill one more innocent person like a dog — as a northern soldier shot my cousin in the head for doing her job as an election observer — if the state keeps locking people up, allowing mosques, churches, and communities to be blown up in the north while the people lick their wounds sitting in the dark without power, Nigeria will explode.
It is one step away from revolution already.
Which is why when I hear a man like Wike talking rubbish, bragging and threatening, I think to myself: does this man not know that he is the prime target of the revolution that is coming? That they will come for him before almost anyone else? Is he so captivated by his own reflection that he cannot see how close the edge is?
Paris is not the capital of Nigeria. French is not our language. We have no colonial ties to France. And yet every week the man who calls himself president is there — counting his ill-gotten gains with Chagoury. Does he not realise we are all watching? Who are these people, and how dare they treat us like their slaves?
I am fighting. I do not care about trolls. The trolls have made me dig deeper, care more, and grow angrier. One day — when I succeed — I will make not only corruption illegal, but I will lock up anyone involved in tribalism. Because tribalism is the greatest sin in Nigeria. It is the disease that explains why Tinubu is drinking champagne in Paris with a Lebanese crook while you sit in Nigeria — hungry, sweating, and angry.
I rest my case.
Kio Amachree | Stockholm, Sweden | President, Worldview International
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Still, nothing is impossible under this planet including the #NigeriaRevolution.
Let’s keep dragging..
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Other Countries Are Protesting Massively Now Against The Government & Against Continues Hardship, But Nigerian Youths Are Living Happily Even When APC Are Planning To Impose A President On Them On 29th May 2023....... #NigeriaRevolution2023 #NigeriaRevolution #RevolutionNow
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They used a 81/82mm Yugoslavian M69(A/B) mortar to carry out the attack.
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Nigeria deserves a bloody revolution 😎
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As we’re fixing the country, Ghana Nurses and Doctors needs to fix their attitude and rudeness. #FixTheCountryNow #FixTheCountry
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...with a view to providing enabling environment of good educational facilities and opportunities while contributing to the growth and development of the leaders of Tomorrow.
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@Mliuxv The reason the only source of education we now rely on is a threat to them. We will fight with the last drop of our blood. #NigeriaRevolution
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