There have been different instances of Nigerians living abroad saying
such horrible things about Nigeria. We must understand that when the
media reports certain things, they are blown out of proportion.
Everything makes the country seem unappealing in every sense of the word
to return to. However, bear in mind that with the media, no news is
good news!
In the light of this, a friend and I were chatting and
we were talking about some of the crisis that are ongoing in certain
parts of Africa. We ended up having a lengthy chat about the crisis in
Central African Republic, at a point she wrote AFRICA! I asked what
about Africa, then asked her simply if the United States where she
currently lives in is any different. I asked her if people were not
being killed in broad daylight with not much being done about it. I
asked her if she had had to go through the painful speech with her sons
of how to behave and how not to behave in public. I asked if she had
warned them not to wear hoodies, if every day she didn’t live in fear
with the hope that nothing would happen to her children. I also asked if
the many threats, some that are not even reported are not terrifying
enough in the U.S. I am not in any way saying that one conflict/any form
of killing is better than the other, but I do not understand why there
is the need to ignore the problems that exist in front of us, while we
are so quick to point at other people’s? Note in this case, that every
person apart from her nuclear family lives in Nigeria. She was born and
raised in Nigeria but relocated with her family to the U.S. about four
years ago, then all of a sudden, the very place that raised her and
accounts for most of who/what she is, is now talked about with disdain.
We ended the conversation with her writing, “abi ooo nobody is safe
anywhere”.
