The moment Nigeria gets balkanized, that's when you'll realize that inside that your Yoruba Ronu, another Ronu dey inside.
Ijebu will start clamoring for regional autonomy in this new Oduduwa republic. Ekiti, Ijesha, Egba etc will all have competing interests.
You know why?
Because before the colonizers came, these people were not fucking...
dancing around in a circle holding hands and weeping with joy about how united in Oduduwa they were.
No.
They were literally putting bullets in each other's bodies and forcing each other into slavery in a multi century back and forth struggle.
There was no "Yoruba" in the homogenous nation state sense of the word.
And what about the middle belt? In Benue state for example, there are dozens (yes, DOZENS) of tribes who don't like each other and will not hesitate to pick up a knives or rifles to settle old scores.
The Fulani and Berom need no introduction.
Even in the core north, many young Hausa are increasingly discontent about the absolute political dominance of the Fulani despite outnumbering them.
Islam can only go so far to quell a people with so much latent resentment.
What about Igbo land?
Some Abia parents won't let their kids marry from the next village.
Anambra people turn up their noses at Ebonyi people and consider them lesser Igbos.
Okay nau.
By the time the "Ebonyi Liberation Movement" picks up EU-supplied rifles now to fight the "tyrants in Awka" everybody mind go dey.
When the "Imo Freedom Army" (IMA) suddenly pop out of nowhere and demand full control of the humongous reserves of natural gas deposits (up to 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas)...
And this same IMA starts bombing government buildings in Enugu and Anambra to get their point across....
Everybody go understand.
What about the South South where I'm from?
The rest of the Edo people most likely will not recognize the "divine" authority of the far away Oba of Benin and could pick up arms to settle their differences.
The Ijaw, Urhobo, Itsekiri and dozens upon dozens of smaller tribes will 100% pick up every weapon they can find to secure the oil for themselves.
So Mr/Mrs. Secessionist, I want you to understand that the problems of neocolonialism, bad governance and bigotry you're running away from in Nigeria will not magically disappear the moment you get Biafra 2.0, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan or any other ethno state.
You will simply plunge this patch of West Africa into a multi pronged civil war that will last many many decades.
Sudan, Libya and Somalia will look like a paradise.
There will be total collapse of supply chains, bandits and terrorists would carve out their own territories and the colonizers will be arming every slack witted tribal chest thumping young man with a rusted AK47 to kill his fellow miserable black man so Mr. Colonizer can keep extracting Lithium, Oil and gold for dirt cheap.
You will waste generations and millions of people will starve to death .
This is one of the reasons I am so so militant about this.
The colonizers forced us together. That is true.
But it's up to us if we want to keep flinging sand and knives at each other, or if we want to work together toward prosperity for our future and our children.
A Nigeria that works for everybody is the way. Toss your stupid Biafra, Oduduwa Republic, Fulanistan ideas into the trash and light it on fire.
Elections are coming and this is one of the British state's contributions to keeping Nigerians plugged into the deliberately-inflamed electoral merry-go-round.
If they can successfully ignite a rhetorical 'dumb blackie vs indoctrinated blackie vs poor blackie' social media civil war, they know the blackies will all be too busy fighting each other or trying to put out the fire to have the actual conversation that matters - that Nigeria needs total societal upheaval and physical rebellion to uproot their puppets who are never going to relinquish power through an 'election'.
The only meaningful response is to completely blank it and refuse to give it airtime.
Because after you saw this same BBC openly publish an article claiming that "Chicago State University certified that Tinubu’s certificate is not a forgery" - when literally THE EXACT OPPOSITE is what happened, why on earth are you still allowing it have access to your eyes and ears?
Is it BDSM that is worrying you people? Why don't you see what is so obvious in front of you?
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PATTERN RETRIEVAL by @adamilenich is one of the most beautiful things to come out of generative art this year.
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One of my mentees just lost her job, and I feel obliged to share this here.
Many HR managers don't usually tell you this, but there are workplace traps that can quietly damage your career if you're not careful.
Bookmark this and read through very carefully:
To be honest, I've accepted the fact that Nigeria will never get better unless the enlightened ones organize and lead the people to prosperity at gunpoint.
Because even if the people riot today and chase every politician out of Aso Rock, NOTHING will change.
Jamiu the rioter from Ojuelegba under bridge and Hassan the rioter who was selling onions in Maiduguri main market yesterday cannot build institutions that dismantle the current neocolonial structure.
They don't know how.
They don't know how to write new legal code.
They don't know how media works at the societal level.
They don't know how to deal with the swarm of imperialists that will surely descend to seize power after the government is topped. That is, they are geopolitically illiterate.
The only way this country will progress is if a few dozen patriots organize and and basically light themselves on fire to lead the rest of the 240M ignorant citizens out of the darkness.
Or else you'll just get chaos and meaningless death and destruction after the regime is toppled.
There is no other way.
Happy new month, Dinerians 🦾
May was a whole month of wins for us
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Soon it's going to have a number.
For years we aped into coins with dog faces and clown names and told ourselves the chain wasn't keeping score.
It was keeping score.
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Most memecoins do nothing.
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Stop selling the thing you actually believe in just to free up liquidity.
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Not a weekend fork.
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Yeah. That tracks.
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