Are Yorubas Cowards?

I am Yoruba and it brings great shame to see my people act like such cowards. Yorubas seem to be the only morons in the south that advocate "One Nigeria" even though we stand to lose from this union. We continuously side with the Hausas even though we have more in common with other southern-Nigerian people. Even after the loss of Abiola we still continue to play the role of house boy to the Northern power base.

It is this hallowed personality that paved the way for the core North to feel comfortable giving the role of President to one of us. One of the cowards of Africa. Besides being the largest Ethnic group on the entire continent, we are unable to work along the lines of our interest.

It is almost as if the Yorubas of present have forgotten that we were invaded by the Hausas before the arrival of the British. Despite glaring signs of this invasion, such as the islamic faith of the Yorubas in Kwara State and other Northern Yoruba territories, we continue to play stupid. Our present Yoruba elders have been corrupted, and are ruining us.

Personally, I am not proud to be a Yoruba. We are fractured people that are too willing to ignore our traditional allies in the south to satisfy the wishes of the core North.

To make matters worse, the pro-Yoruba groups like Afenifere have failed to push for greater autonomy for the Yoruba states. If things don't change soon, we will no longer exist as a people. If you think my comments are far-fetched, just look around you. More and more Yorubas can no longer speak the language. More and more Yorubas bow their heads in shame when ever the mention of our traditional gods are called. More and more Yorubas are unaware that due to the relative peace in our territories, fairly educated elite, access to the sea, and the all around respectful character of our people, a Yoruba state would easily be the strongest force in the entire continent.

I hate to sound like I am spreading hate, but this is the honest truth. Our current elders have betrayed us in their unrelenting service to appease their true masters (see:core North).

It is a good thing that our ancestors are dead, because if they see what their beloved people have become, they would give up their status as Yorubas for that of a more honourable ethnic group (Maybe Igbo?).

You are delusional. Yoruba's like you are the reason that all of us are regarded as cowards. You should study more about history and get your facts straight.

You like Nigeria even after many Yorubas were killed in the Kaduna riots. You like Nigeria even after Abiola was killed by the core North. You like Nigeria even knowing that a Yoruba State would be a lot more successful than this British abomination. You like Nigeria even after it ranked in at number 22 out of a list of 60 failed States. You like Nigeria even after Abacha and co terrorized your ancestral people? Maybe you like Nigeria because you are the daughter of one of the pro-One Nigerian Politician that has gotten rich of stolen public funds.

As for your comments of being proud of being Yoruba, giving the current situation, there is nothing to be proud of. Only through the resurrection of a powerful successful Yoruba State can we truly be proud of our beloved.

I am surprised you are so in love with this British creation callled Nigeria. It is almost as if you are not aware that this country was made by the British to make it easy for them to manipulate us.

For most of the 50 or so years that the country has been independent, it has been under the rule of the core-North and it is now in ruin.

I will stop at nothing to see the re-organization and the creation of a Yoruba state. You and your fellow pro-Nigeria Yorubas can stay with your failed State. It is not like we want cowards living amongst us.

Note: I am not the only Yoruba that feels this way. And once I publish my thoughts (Most likely in book format) more and more would accept my ideology and will be willing to do whatever is neccessary for the creation of a Yoruba+our traditional allies in the south west and parts of the south-south State. No, the Igbos are not included, but I still like them. 

WesleyanA, the ethnic divide and the way that the country was put together is way too much for Nigeria to ever be a successful country. Never have 250+ individual ethnic groups been forced to stay in a single nation that ended being successful. It is just not going to work. Nigeria is flawed in design.

Yes, the politicians steal, but that has a lot to do with not caring about the country. The only reason the core-north is shouting for one Nigeria is because if Nigeria breaks up, they would end up like Niger. We do not need them. They need us. To make matters worse, they are the one claiming to be born to rule. They are the ones that killed over 750 southerners (Mainly Igbos and Yorubas) so that they can implement brutal islamofacist laws.

Continue to shout your love for "One Nigeria" but take a trip to Kaduna and so much as criticize one of their Malams, and you and every other southerner near you would be dead within minutes. One Nigeria is a lie. What kind of country is that?

Things are not right in the country. And the reason why they won't give an Igbo man the Presidency is that the know the Igbos would not tolerate the kind of non-sense that is going on in Kaduna and other Sharia States. They know Igbos are not under the illlusion of One Nigeria, and as such, will not hesitate to pull out of this abomination if things got out hand.

However, with a coward Yoruba man in power, the core-North can do as they please. Even with Obj in power, the Hausa states still get more federal money for each resident than the southern States. Even though they contribute very little to the Federal budget, they get more than 60 percent of the money given out to States. That is one Nigeria for you. The south does the work, and the North gets free time to go on rampages whenever they please.

Allow me to spin my needle. You said that if one were to critizize a malam he would end up dead in minutes.
Now lets switch the roles if a malam were to enter enugu and curse a priest or someone of high riligious faith, What would happen to this malam?
You don't realize that Nigerians are more the same then you would like to believe.

The reason why people like you cannot stop crying over ethnic this and ethnic that is the fact that you are loosing in the grand scheme of things. Become a winner
How many yorubas practice Islam as a faith I swear the numbers were over 8 million.
Stop this babble that Nigeria should split. If Yoruba had its own nation, would their still not be corruption, what if Igbo nko and Hausa too

And lastly who told you that the North would not be able to function as an independent nation, how dare you make assumptions that it would automatically become a failed state. Do you know where the bulk of the Nigerian Army is asssituated. Do you know how many natural resources such as comlumbite and tin are located in the so called north? Do you know which type of agricultural sector is located in the north? Remember that contrary to popular belief oil is not Nigerians only source of capital.

Now, here goes Wes again!

Umn this break up of a thing is already smoking in another board:
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-12735.128.html#msg377312

You'D read what I think about the whole thing in there.

@Afeni

A Coward is someone who is afraid to stand for who he is.

Shame on You!

Josboy4lif, do you know why the North has the bulk of the armed forces? It is because Nigeria was ruled and ruined by the semi-illiterate Northern Generals and they made sure to build most of the military based up North just in case the Southerners decided to live. Those actions should tell you a little something about One Nigeria. All is not well here. All people in Nigeria are not equal, and the North continuously pushes actions that are at the detriment to the southern people.

Okay I'm yoruba, and I'm NOT A COWARD. U can think u are a coward, but i know I'm not.

WHat's so bad in working with people that are from different ethnic group?

Yawns @ your post

but I guess you are a coward then to be living in New York and telling Nigeria from a distance to break up.

WesleyanA, I am merely here to perfect my ideology and formulate a plan. Once the time comes, I will return to put an end to the madness.

And yes, if need be, I fully intend to die for this cause. So, like I said, Death before dishonor.

he's a "break Nigeria" radical. 

nice way to put an end to your life Afeni.
when are you going back to fight for your beliefs, when you're 80?

I am not intending to creating a midget country. My intentions are to provide greater autonomy for the western Province of Nigeria. The same province (with little modifications) that the British implemented to create economic and social growth in the regions west and south of Niger River). This province would also include Kwara State and the TIV regions of souther Niger State.

Omogenaija, were we working with the core-North during the rein of Abacha?  Continue to deceive yourself.

The lack of interest that Omogenaija and hot-angel is very telling of the kind of people you are. Don't worry, if you close your eyes hard enough, you might be able to forward your shallowness. But it fine, once the message has been sent, Yoruba men would do all the heavy lifting. 

Thats why I always use ethnic-group. I find it hard to believe that these so-called Yorubas would refer to themselves as tribe when we number in at over 40 million.

  one thing i know about Yoruba's  is that they r loud!