NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?

NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?

According to a popular African saying, “A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.” Unarguably, in the words of the renowned African writer, Chinua Achebe, “the rain that beat us as Africans began over four hundred years ago, from the ‘discovery’ of Africa by Europe, through the transatlantic slave trade, to the Berlin Conference of 1885…”(THERE WAS A COUNTRY).

But much may argue that the rain was a forceful rain that came through colonization. Continue reading “NIGERIA AT 60: ARE THE GODS TO BLAME FOR ITS WOES?”