Tonight i was watching a movie on BBC1 Amistad i have seen it before but i like to watch it again and again, but this time as the closing credits rolled down the screen i am reminded of the way things were in the time of black slavery how brutal it was. But i as a black man i watch the movie and have a clear view of how things were and are right now.
We all know that the period of slavery was brutal and inhuman period in the history of mankind in many ways, but as a black man i have to acknowledge the truth that slavery was a business there was product and there was demand. The demand needed to be met ,and for that to happen there had to have being Africans we were dealing with the Europeans supplying the product, which were the slaves and for that they got paid , like i said it was a business after all. We come to the present day and we come to Nigeria and nothing has changed from the period of slavery the product has changed but the basic principle has remained the same, a few in charge, our leaders, are selling out the country like the African forefathers of old who went into the interior of Africa to steal and sell free men and women into slavery, a business the Europeans became very good at, the business that built empires. We still see how our leaders are selling our resources to the west for personal gain same as the forefathers of old.
The sadness i feel about all this as a country with so much going for it but is held back by a few who believe that it their God given right to keep the country in the dark age for their own personal gain. It may not be only in Nigeria if we look across Africa as a continent we can see from Zimbabwe, to Ivory Coast the same problems of greed and ambitions for personal gains. You might say i have a very simplistic view of the world that we have in Africa and that it is more complicated than it seems, and you might be right. But i ask one question when it come to Nigeria. "how is it for a country with a product that most of the powerful countries in world want so much to run their economy, we cannot use the funds they paid for the product to develop our own backyard?" and the next question i ask is "where is the funds?" as in the time of slavery the same problem exist, there those few who sell out our resources to their own personal gain and Nothing has changed since then
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