@linuxlvr if you don’t know the people that were standing up to the government in the past, how can you stand up to them now, there’ll be no blueprint to follow. It’s part of their plan bro
As for me, whenever Nigeria calls me, I will answer. It's my home and there's nothing I can do about it. It's a trash country, but it's my trash country. I don't have another one. But having said that, I won't be jumping up and being a hero like I did in 2023. Not because I have a problem with lighting myself on fire and suffering alone, but because I saw firsthand that it does not work.
You people want heroes, but heroes are not what you need. All a hero is in Nigeria is a dead guy that becomes a symbol for late night igbo-smoking and rhythmic swaying to a fake-deep Burna Boy tribute soundtrack. A hero is a completely useless thing in Nigeria. What you people need is a full-spectrum nationwide rebellion that is so vicious, bloody and violent that it will alter the entire course of West African history.
What you don't need is another individual hero who will end up dead or in jail so that you will tweet "Free XYZ" or enthusiastically smoke igbo while singing along to the posthumous Burna Boy tribute song. So never ask me to "come back and lead" anything. When I come back, it will be the same way I left Abuja - arm in arm with thousands of my contemporaries marching down Shehu Shagari Way in unison.
It won't be to become yet another useless Nigerian hero symbol that cannot change the price of garri in the market.
This guy hates you, yet you keep showing him love.
Look at everything he engages with. From fake crypto schemes, to politics, to promoting gambling. In almost every way this guy engages with you people, he is either exploiting you, misleading you, or contributing to the things that keep you down.
His music does not raise your consciousness. It does not challenge you to think differently about your circumstances. It does not inspire you to confront the conditions keeping you poor. It simply gives you something to dance to while you forget about the very problems destroying your life.
He makes you dance away your sorrows, while simultaneously participating in the very culture that creates more sorrow for you.
He promotes gambling to people who are already struggling. He involves himself in politics in ways that serve interests that have nothing to do with you. He directly scams you through his fake crypto schemes, while giving you music to make you forget that you are being taken from.
Yet you keep giving your love, money, attention, and influence to people who have repeatedly shown you that they have no interest in your well being.
At some point, you should start asking why the people you love so much have so little interest in whether you actually become better.
“The sacrifice of Lumumba is greater to me than the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ knew he was going to wake up after three days, but the people that died for me; Lumumba, Sankara, my father, Nkrumah, Steve Biko — these people d! 3d and they knew they were never going to wake up and they still d! 3d. We can not be afraid anymore. Our mission is liberation. We must liberate ourself from the hands of these people.”
— Seun Kuti says.