It appears that the fleece many of us Nigerians is no longer golden abroad.

A black female Nigerian doctoral student of Kennesaw State University in Georgia USA has exposed emails and audio of racism against black students in the International Conflict Management program. In particular, she published an email by a German professor, Marcus Marktanner, who detailed how the white students were the best students who deserved financial assistance from the school, and that black students were not to be given funding even though the black students performed just as well as the white students.

In order to shut her down, the professor accused her of cheating during his final exam. He also distributed racist pencils with the Southern Confederate flag to the students to use for his exam as an intimidation tactic. She was also sent a death threat, which she also published. The program director, Joseph Bock, supported the professor, telling her that no one liked or wanted her at the school, but later apologized for his comments.

After mounting several appeals to fight the charges, she launched a hunger strike on social media and on a website to publicize her case. Since then, many faculty there have been quietly removing or toning down their online profiles.

Now students still in the program say that the university frantically is making attempts to lure Nigerian students here at home to attend in order to cover up the scandal by offering them discounts on tuition and other training fees.

If our leaders had done the right thing since *long time Imo River*, we should not be receiving such insults from others just because we do not have or maintain the infrastructure in our own country to educate ourselves. Universities such as ABU Zaria, Ife, Ibadan and Nsukka (to name a few) back in the day used to be of such international standard that students from far and wide used to come to Nigeria just to attend them. Now all we have is shambles, and rich people sending their children abroad or to expensive private universities at home. Is it too much to hope and pray that our leaders will rescue us from this kind of embarrassment? Just sayin'.

This one serious o

Racism will remain until the world ends - whenever that will be. Sad! However, while we (blacks), the too often objects of racism are still walking the earth, let's do all we can to expose racism whenever it's directed at us.