Pride is an understatement of the way I feel when I talk about my homeland
Land of warriors and queens, chief priest, and kings,
We sing songs of victory,
History indented in them like a finger print my people
We are unique
Quick to our feet we stick to the beat of the drum.
Fearless and brave we are the beginning and end of a storm.
Our voice booms through the streets; when we speak you can’t help but listen
We command with our voice
Nigeria kwenu, kwenu, kwezuenu!
A nation held hostage by corruption
Yet the people still strong
Our backs where once bent on our own land and now we struggle to walk tall
Fighting for a better tomorrow by being stronger today
iRep Nigeria because that is my name
And many may say this pride is in vein
Scorn me for not holding my head down in shame
And yes, I’m sick of the pain caused by the diseased greed killing my country's name
But I look at the faces on my people and that’s where my pride lies
My pride lies under the mango tree
As my grandmother tells the story of the tortoise who tried to fly,
Broke his back and that’s how the cracks on his back came to be.
My pride lies on that very soil I learned how to cook with palm oil,
How to fry the cassava till it becomes garri,
how to pound yam until it becomes fufu,
My pride lies in the arms of my mother rocking me to the breeze,
She calls me Nwam, her child.
See, pride is an understatement of the way I feel when I talk about my homeland
The people are my land
The soil is my land
The deep breaths of humidity and smoke that elevates from the piles of burning plastics
That is my land
I don’t use the tactics of painting Nigeria as completely fantastic
But I love my country,
My people,
My culture,
My tradition,
My language,
My heritage,
See, pride is an understatement of the way I feel about Nigeria.

©Copyright 2008

Sweetie, you make me proud to be Nigerian. I'm feeling on nostalgic up in here.

DaPhoenix:

Sweetie, you make me proud to be Nigerian. I'm feeling on nostalgic up in here.

Phew, I'm happy you like it. For a minute I thought I wrote some BS.