Some time in the year 2018, the president of The Federal Republic of Nigeria in the media declared that Nigerian youths are lazy. In anger and contempt over this assertion, most Nigerian youths quickly rushed to various social media platforms such as Facebook and What's App where they vented angrily their opinion on the matter, with most if not all making a counter claim that they are not lazy. While some beyond reasonable doubt presented hard and concrete evidences to prove they're not lazy but if anything hard working physically, there were those whose defense was nothing short of a blatant and excellent display as well as outright validation of how lazy they truly are. There were also those who were just for the sake of it angry over the bitter truth and on that basis aired their minds as well as those who were neither embittered, sad nor happy over the matter but for some reason felt they had to almost like everyone else, say something on the matter.
Of different genders, races, tribes, religious, social and political backgrounds, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. While most men for instance are hard working physically and mentally, most are on the other hand emotionally very very lazy, and as for the women folk, while most have shown themselves to be hard working emotionally for example, same cannot be said of them when it comes to physical and mental labour.
While a majority among African youths irrespective of gender, tribe, social, religious and political orientation may have overtime convincingly shown themselves to be very hard working physically, most have unfortunately overtime proven beyond reasonable doubt to be very lazy when it comes to mental exercise. With little to no shame and sheer disregard for originality, majority among African youths will rather than create, recreate, invent, reinvent and revolutionalize - copy, photocopy, recopy and duplicate that which has been invented and reinvented by those who have made not only physical but more importantly mental exercise a standard and general way of life. The attitude of timidity and deep disregard in the face of profound astute mental exercise by a large number of African youths can very well be traced back to their ancestors - just before, during and after the era when a significant number of them were bought, uprooted, bundled up and exported like cheap commodities with no real value. The conundrum of mental laziness which has brazenly stood the test of time in the life of the average African youth has given rise to several others the manifestation of which is spread across the social, political, religious and more importantly economic backwardness of the African continent. Countries of the continent have seen themselves left way behind by their counterparts across the vast and densely populated continent of Asia for instance due to the indirectly acculturated culture of mental laziness of the average African youth who, holding very little to no value for himself/herself, moves heaven and earth in a desperate attempt to integrate himself/herself and/or his/her unborn children into these emerging societies.
In as much as there are a minute number of African youths out of a population of over four hundred million whose works have undoubtedly given credence to how hard working the average African youth can be mentally, little to no effect has been felt from their ingenuity and creativity as the voice and efforts of the minority will always be overwhelmed by those of the majority.
The situation has in no small way been exercebated by the public and private jokes grossly misrepresenting what should be a public or private institution of higher learning and purpose where wanton replication of old, ancient, archaic, outdated and dilapidated redundancies have arrogantly been made a standard and general practice, a place where most youths upon successful completion of sojourn, rather than become more motivated, focused, and energised than ever to confront the herculean tasks ahead and achieve more turn out to be demoralized, confused, devastated and deeply disappointed more than initially.
The deep seated attitude of mental laziness inherent in the average African youth is further buttressed in the sharp emotion ladened and unguarded statements in form of responses overtly and covertly that usually greet write-ups such as this as well as those that will see the messenger rather than the message directly and/or indirectly attacked, not forgetting those who will altogether ignore reading the article for being too long.
The mental laziness of most African youths have not only seen her entire people lag as they bow to very sophisticated artistic and technological advancements of several emerging economies across the globe but has also seen them cower in fear at the mercy of their masterminds.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the colonists now neocolonialists overwhelmingly played a great role in the downward trend in economic development and progress which the African continent has seen over the years but the role which her teeming youths have played and continue to play in the debacle cannot and must not continue to be ignored.

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