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.
The result is out for South Africa. This is a prototype for what is to come.
The white settlers who are engineering South Africans against their African neighbors must are smiling now!
The way the whole continent turned against South Africa in their game against Mexico on Thursday was exactly what those behind the xenophobia against black migrants were hoping for.
Itโs never too late to receive sense.
@NigeriaStories "Every great nation was built by those who stayed to solve problems, not by those who abandoned ship."
If only he himself lives by this code. But none of them do. Your kids study abroad. Your health care, abroad. Your vehicles, abroad. Whatever change we need, starts from you.