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The Harsh Reality Of Nigeria: Lugard's Forced Marriage by Nobody: 8:45am On Nov 28, 2015
Good day House,
i decided to paste this write up i got from facebook. you guys can read a make your comments.

LORD LUGARDS MAGIC AND FLORA SHAWS SPELL
In 1916, Lord Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, the 1st Baron Lugard,
the fourteenth Governor of Hong Kong and the first Governor-General
of Nigeria, said the following:
“Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented
strife and bloodshed in the hinterland. I have spent the best part of
my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for
whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and
after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the
people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the lowest, the most
seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking
money motives of any people I have met.”
As if that were not bad enough, two years later, on September 25th
1918, in a letter to his colleague Walter H. Lang, Lugard wrote the
following: "The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as
sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is
gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any
community to which he seeks to attach himself."
Lugard's words are utterly reprehensible. They represent the most
appalling examples of racial stereotyping that I have ever seen. Yet he
didn't stop there. In his book titled 'The Dual Mandate' (pg. 70) 1926
he wrote the following:
"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is
a happy, thriftless, excitable person. LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL,
DISCIPLINE, AND FORESIGHT. Naturally courageous, and naturally
courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of
veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves
jewelry. HIS THOUGHTS ARE CONCENTRATED ON THE EVENTS AND
FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT, and he suffers little from the
apprehension for the future, or grief for the past. His mind is far
nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and
exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise
beyond the State he has reached. Through the ages THE AFRICAN
APPEARS TO HAVE EVOLVED NO ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS CREED, and
though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense
seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to
take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural . HE LACKS THE
POWER OF ORGANIZATION, and is conspicuously deficient in the
management and control alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE
DISPLAY OF POWER, but fails to realize its responsibility... he will work
hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the
fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue... In brief, the
virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children,
whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older
and wiser superior and without envy...Perhaps the two traits which
have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native
are HIS LACK OF APPREHENSION AND HIS LACK OF ABILITY TO
VISUALIZE THE FUTURE."
There can be little doubt that this arrogant englishman was a rabid
racialist who had nothing but the deepest contempt for our people. He
was also one of the most uncouth and vulgar souls that ever polluted
our shores with his unwholesome and malevolent presence.
It is one of the greatest ironies of modern history that this ignorant
seafarer was the individual that recommended to the British Colonial
Office that the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria and the
Lagos colony, should all be merged into one large country. That
recommendation was accepted and consequently Lord Lugard can
legitimately be described as the chief architect of modern-day Nigeria.
It was actually Lord Lugard's wife, Miss Flora Shaw, that proposed the
name Nigeria for our country. This was done in an article that she
wrote for the London Times on January 8th 1897. She and Lugard got
married five years later in June 1902 after which she became known as
Lady Flora Lugard. Shaw was well connected.
Her mother was a French lady of Mauritian stock by the name of Marie
Adrienne Josephine and her father was Major-General George Shaw, a
respected British army officer. She was colonial editor of the Times of
London where she wrote an influential weekly column titled ''The
Colony''.
She was not only stunningly beautiful but she also had vision and
substance. Given that, one finds it difficult to comprehend what an
enterprising and extraordinary woman like this found attractive in an
abominable scalywag like Lord Lugard. I daresay that this was a classic
case of the beauty and the beast.
Despite his pretensions of love Lugard despised the numerous ethnic
nationalities of Nigeria and he continuously expressed his contempt for
us with his insulting and condescending commentaries.
Perhaps his best known intervention was made in 1914 in a letter that
he wrote to the British government just a few weeks prior to the
amalgamation. He wrote as follows:
"What we often call the Northern Protectorate of Nigeria today can be
better described as the poor husband whilst it's southern counterpart
can be fairly described as the rich wife or the woman of substance and
means. A forced union of marriage between the two will undoubtedly
result in peace, prosperity and marital bliss for both husband and wife
for many years to come. It is my prayer that that union will last
forever".
From this contribution it is clear that ours was a ''forced'' union. It is
also clear that Lugard saw northern Nigeria as a ''poor husband'' that
needed constant attention and support whilst he saw southern Nigeria
as nothing more than a ''rich wife'' or a ''woman of substance and
means'' whose plight was to be constantly pillaged and ravished.
This was his vision: a northern Nigeria that was essentially the ''head of
the household'' and that would remain in control of all the power and
resources of the state and a southern Nigeria that would play the role
of a passive and subservient wife whose destiny it was to remain in
perpetual subjugation and bondage.
Sadly this was the crooked foundation upon which our union was built.
What made it even worse was the fact that the so-called ''southern
wife'' and ''northern husband'' were never asked if they wanted the
marriage in the first place.
The truth is that the British colonialists were masters of divide and
rule. The amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates
was a Greek gift which was designed to fail and to crumble at the
appropriate time. Nigerians have done well to have held it together for
so long and the fact that we have only experienced one civil war is
miraculous.
Despite all pretensions, the only thing that has kept us together is the
oil of the Niger-Delta and the extraordinary resilience, patience, faith,
fortitude, zeal and strength of the Nigerian people themselves.Mr. Sola
Adebowale, a writer, understood the mindset of Lord Lugard. He
captured it rather well on Facebook in 2014 when he wrote the
following:
''Lugard was a stark illiterate and it was quite unfortunate that that
was the best that imperial Britain could send to Africa. Hence he was
noted to have vehemently opposed native education for Africans. And
he was said to have loathed the educated and sophisticated Africans of
the southern coastal regions who had been educated by the Christian
Missionaries before him and instead wined and dined and positioned
the uneducated feudal hordes of Africa to the forefront of leadership
of Africa. Is that not the albatross against many African nations till
date? Hence the moral right of Devil Lugard to pontificate about
Africans is questionable''.
Mr. Adebowale has hit the nail on the head. I concur with his
submissions.
Permit me to end this contribution with an interesting aside. It is
generally agreed though not commonly admitted that both Lugard and
Flora Shaw were Luciferians who practiced the black arts and all
manner of satanic rituals. He was a "High Priest of the Freemasons"
whilst they were both avid folllowers of Aleister Crowley, the leading
satanist of his day and the self-styled "worlds most wicked man".
This explains a lot. It also explains why Shaw gave us the name
"Nigeria"- a name which has questionable roots. Anyone that doubts
this should consider the literal translation of Nigeria from latin: it
means "the area of darkness" and there is a deep spiritual and
mystical reason that she gave us that name. It comes with a lot of
baggage because not much good can come out of an area of darkness.
Most of the former British colonies changed their names after
independence for similar reasons but because most of our leaders in
Nigeria were not aware of these matters they refused to do so. Lugard
and Shàw were an unlikely couple who had no children. What held
them together was more spiritual and mystical than anything else and
Nigeria and the Sudan are their joint legacy to the world.
Sadly both countries are having major challenges today. Sudan has
broken into two after a protracted and bitter civil war whilst Nigeria is
experiencing serious regional, ethnic and religious tensions. It is clear
that our nation needs a good deal of prayer. May God deliver us from
Lord Lugard's magic and his beautiful wife's spell.

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