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| All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 9:35pm On May 16, 2017 |
A wise man once said; "'George Orwell book 1984 talked about Big Brother watching you; there is only one thing worse... and that is you, watching bigbrother'. We in Nigeria, and in Africa at large are over-stuffed with the diet of western values". We in sub-Saharan Africa, a once tropical paradise, were blessed with natures abundance. Africa by far had a wonderful climate (this has worsened with our approach to development) and the continent is well positioned at the centre of the world, with a diverse ecosystem from its Northern hemisphere to the southern. In pre-colonial times as opposed to the winters in the west and persistent famine in the east, we Africans had no reasons to change our ways. There was no pressing need for innovation, thus industrialisation was not a necessity... If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, abundance then is the mother of inertia. This led us to have very lose social structures and a lack of need for a state. Life was indeed very simple. Just before colonial rule, all over Africa, there became reasons to form states in order for the west to secure principalities (from the rampaging Arabs from the middle east) . In the Berlin conference of 1884-85, Africa was shared like a piece of cake with no African in attendance. The colonial era was ushered in and all over Africa, Oasis of luxury started to manifest; first through the opulence of traditional rulers (who benefited greatly during the pre-colonial times) unto high placed citizenries who were able to do business wit foreign merchants. You see, if climate was the first cause of Africa's depreciation in technological advancements, foreign invasion of the continent (colonisation) by vested interest was the next cause of Africas backwardness. The cash crops became a very important crop for produce and then export against our own local produce for our consumption(We became so attuned to the taste of the europeans that we started forgetting our fellow local hungry mouths) . The white man sweet tooth became the standard for the Nigerian elites, at the time who were involved in the trade of cash crops. We exported our raw materials for cheap and recieved imported beverages and finished materials with which we paid taxes on. this social malaise instigated by our pioneer elitist class led us to the third cause of Africas backwardness; poor judgement and miscalculation. You see, colonial rule was artificial and lacked legitimacy and respect from its subjects. In Nigeria, as complex as our contraption was, the lack of legitimacy of colonial rule led to misappropriation of our resources by the elites in control of its processes indirect rule by the British. The next generation elites, whom received education abroad had become aware of the discrepancies in colonial rule and sort to lace his own pockets (like stealing from a foreign theif). Unfortunately, this attitude and mentality has not changed about 60years into our independence. It has instead gotten so worse with time. In the present, urban cities that were created to provide civil labor have led to rural decay, as a continuous exodus continues to happen as Nigerians seek greener pastures. Rural life which is essential in the African concept became inadequate as rural youths flocked to the city. Our cultural and agricultural influences drained away as religion became over-expressed. Poor judgement ate deep into our polity as it became a national anthem. Colonisation has since back-fired as miscalculation gave birth to lots of elephant projects, richer elites and over-exploited masses. However, this colonial disaster had a different implication in Northern Nigeria which is majorly islamic. This is outlined in the points below that highlights the Nigerian fundamental problems in mentality. Western dependency Over time, development has become distorted in Nigeria and priorities are often misplaced or completely violated. Our western dependant mentality made us mortgage our souls to the white man. In the southern axis of Nigeria, Abundance of import replaced abundance of nature as we embraced the colonial taste hook line and sinker, together with their ways of life and style. In the northern part of nigeria it was different, as Islam had always been very suspicious of the good life. This led to a distrust of the pleasures of consumption as imbibed in their cultural-religious practice. Thus while the southern axis were trying to be more europeans than the europeans, the northern axis was stuck in their ways and embraced retrogression. Both directions were influenced by western influences. The oil boom only then created a moral disease of sudden oil wealth in a weak capitalist system; Therefore as wealth accumulated so did corruption and distrust rise between the north and south fault lines... and as personal wealth became available to thieving elites, so did human mentality and morals decay. Decay, entropy and Lack of maintenance culture There is no sadder case of the haemorrhage of our national mentality than this point. The collusion between our elites and vested interest still waxes strong till today in taking away resources from our lands and failing to give back or maintain a considerable lifestyle for the masses. First of this collusion was the taking away of our fittest natives as slaves to the white mans plantations; then it was the consideration of cash crop exportation to suite the white man's taste over the development of our local produce to create value chains and boost industrialisation; now it is the exploitation of our natural, human and minerals resources by corporations without meaningful development - All to the detriment of our ecology. Even when efforts were made to create enabling industrial complexes, this turned out to be huge elephant projects due to a lack of rational thinking; whenever a dam was built there was miscalculation to the amount of water to power turbines, whenever steel plants were built... lack of foresight on powering the complex prevailed, whenever monuments were built, a lack of maintenance culture brought about decay and entropy. Desperation, Corruption and a Lack of care As people became more conscious and aware of their ability to govern themselves, there was a clamour for self governance. However, when self governance was handed to Nigeria, we became carried away by tribal conflicts, a lack of care for progress and tribal desperation for influence and power. This is responsible for keeping the attitude of misappropriation of our resources and has denigrated into the present stand off of militancy and insurgency. The inability of independent Nigeria to tackle our developmental distortion only fed to the desperation of the masses, and every individual started looking for means which they could misappropriate funds to secure their families future. This has led to a long history of conflicts and poverty within our polity. This has created a double sickness of things falling apart and dependence on outside powers for influence and aids. The bane of this is that most of us still don't care about this status quo. Urbanisation without Industrialisation One of the reason for progress in the west and middle east is a following of the natural order of things. Over there civilisation gave birth to urbanisation which birthed industrialisation, and this took place over 100s of years. In our case, foreign civilisations were planted on our land without us being actually civilised, and urbanisation destroyed the delicate balance between rural and city cohabitation. This put great strain on our industrialisation drive; and was all done in a few decades, as thousands of rural dwellers continually flocked to the cities. Thus, we never really hit the ground running but rather slumped into a coma from the set go. You see socialism without science is void. So to achieve equality amongst citizens irrespective of location, one needs the socialist dream of collective efforts and a welfare state. However, to get the equality with other nations we need the scientific dream of industrialisation, innovation and technology. There are so much discrepancy between these equality coefficients that has failed to boost our industrialisation of our nation, even with a highly educated young population whom we lose to other nationalities. Thus there it lies that; equity amongst citizen depends on who owns what while equity amongst nations depends on who knows what. This leads to a transaction in human labor between poor nations and rich nations, leaving us rooted in darkness due to a weak economic base. Its ironic to think the first contribution Africa made to the western industrial revolution was labor, then followed by the our cash crops; but we have lost the ability to tell where commodities end and humanity begin, because we have transformed our brightest minds as commodities with a human face. Lack of Planning, poor judgment and Miscalculation This is better clearly highlighted with the advent of crude oil. In the years of the oil boom in the 70s and counting, successive Nigerian governments have always felt they can buy whatever they want to, neglecting industrialisation and resulting in weak economic base. This even led to many farmers down tools to join the oil glut. Lack of management of this critical resources has led to an over dependence of consumption without the need to produce. What makes it more pathetic is the lack of rational thinking that our highly valued crude are hauled out into the global market and then we have to buy the refined products from countries with which we give our crude oil to. This is a senseless show of lack of planning that has been maintained by sabotage, poor judgments, fraud coupled with misappropriation, and a lack of maintenance culture. it seems as if the political will is still absent at the present time to right this wrong. Even when efforts are made to plan and execute, we find ourself trapped in our differences in views based on tribal interest. it is a known fact that since 1999, no single budget of the Nigerian government has been effectively executed and implemented. The question is why can't we develop our solve our huge problems with homegrown ideas and radical solutions? Why do we need to continue to depend on the foreign ideas to solve local impasses? Why do we not innovate enough to produce for our own consumption and enough for export, and go beyond the colonial cash crop mentality, and become less dependent on other nation for sustenance? Your ideas are capitals to rebuild this once great nation... as the human will will always have the power of restoration. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by NightKing21: 11:56pm On May 16, 2017 |
FTC for the 1st time on Nairaland.... Introspective "As for the Night's King (the form I prefer)... Winter is here" |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by MedicMan1role1(f): 12:04pm On May 17, 2017 |
Why is this not on front page? Mynd44 1 Like |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 12:45pm On May 17, 2017 |
If intentions (intent) are what drive human behaviour, My hope is to raise the young nigerian consciousness given the platform. cc; mynd44 MedicMan1role1: 1 Like |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Quinn22(f): 2:24pm On May 17, 2017 |
Baby! Nice work   Inferiority complex led to the cause of African backwardness. "Our cultural and agricultural influences drained away as religion became over-expressed".This is what the white men used to enslave the black man, throughout history till today, this is the cause of most of our problems. We need to go back to our cultural and agricultural ways, that is if we know our true history, but too bad we don't even know our true history and we don't care to find out. We just accept the ideas the white men fed us as our own culture, morals, and way of life. All this happened and are still happening because of "inferiority complex". Inferiority complex is really killing the mind or the mentality of an average black man. We can never progress with this kind of mindset. The question is why can't we develop our solve our huge problems with homegrown ideas and radical solutions? Why do we need to continue to depend on the foreign ideas to solve local impasses? Why do we not innovate enough to produce for our own consumption and enough for export, and go beyond the colonial cash crop mentality, and become less dependent on other nation for sustenance? |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by AHCB: 2:26pm On May 17, 2017 |
Musicwriter, what's your thought on this? |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by musicwriter(m): 4:17pm On May 17, 2017 |
AHCB: Thank you for recommending this thread. I was once at a point in my life where I was also pondering on everything the author was pondering about. And, I have long answered that question, the solution is contained on the part 1 and part 2 of the link on my signature. The answer is EDUCATION- the right type of education, not what is obtainable today. Until we get education right to reset our mindsets back to our natural selves before slavery and colonialism, nothing would work in Africa. Or, we would have to wait millions of years and literally begin to think like white people. For now, the identity issue hasn't been resolved. The question remains; do we want to be white people or Africans? This is an important question any thinking person involved in managing education in Africa must answer immediately for us to proceed. Countries; like, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei, even Japan, once upon a time in their national lives came to a point where they had to decide whether they wanted to forever adopt the cultures of their colonizers or be just Asians. Fortunately, they made the right decision, they all discarded the system of education given them by their colonial masters and started acquiring knowledge in their native language. Our major problem is the system of education white people left us with. Its that education that creates the mindset that have us consider white people as the reference for excellence. We cannot be better than white people as long as we continue to acquire knowledge under a system of indoctrination they gave us. We can't even act right as the author wondered. The problem of elitism in Africa that the author observed is real and I've observed that in my personal research. Its a direct legacy of the colonial past. The colonialists lived like kings and when they were leaving their colonies they created elites given a system of education with that mindset. This was done to keep the elites comfortable enough to maintain the exploitation of Africa using the same elites as conduits. Therefore, an educated African in government becomes someone who's supposed to live large like a colonial master. For example; this's why you would hear someone like Emir Sanusi spending a whooping N4 Billion of Kano state's funds and justifying it. So, Northern Nigeria isn't immune to the malaise as suggested by the author. This problem of elitism would easily be solved once we begin using our native language to acquire knowledge. The gap between the elites and every other person would close to a large extent. You can imagine; for instance, an Igbo man or Yoruba woman or Zulu man, e.t.c sitting in a court room where legal and court deliberation is served in their native language, and everybody would be carried along. The elite then would no longer be one who could speak better English or French- the language of elites installed by white people. You would then have peasants, market women, agberos, everybody having an opinion on court cases and all sorts of subjects in the polity because they'll actually understand what's going on in the country, not just the so called educated people. The benefits are many. A Yoruba man tutored in Yoruba culture and system of education would never steal money belonging to his people and run to Switzerland to keep it. And Igbo man tutored on Igbo system of learning would not steal money belonging to Igbo people. They would be educated enough about their tradition, themselves, their people, so much that they would find corruption and stealing of public funds unattractive. They would be educated enough to understand there would be consequences for their action in the wider society; like, rise in armed robbery, kidnapping, suicide, e.t.c. No matter how I check it, education stands at the root of having the very capacity to arrive at the right conclusion whether as an individual or a nation. If Nigeria needs to confederate or split from the British contraption as the author put it, only the right type of education would let us know what's best for us. The right type of education would remove ethnicity and have us think straight. As it stands today, our minds is running on the software installed on us by white people, especially the educated. What Europeans did to Africa during colonialism is like uninstalling a MAC operating system from an apple computer and installing a WINDOWS operating system instead. Its not as if the computer can't work, but such computer would continue to experience malfunctions till the end of it's life. All the problems we have in Africa could be likened to this. We cannot be ourselves until the WINDOWS operating system is uninstalled and the original "follow come" operating system re-installed. The problem is this WINDOWS system had been too long in the MAC operating system, so much that it no longer realize it was originally an apple computer solving it's own problems it's own way. Problem of lack of technical, scientific and technological capability all boils down to the same reason.  These computers have their own distinctive ways of solving their problem. On the keyboards, the way you copy and paste on a MAC computer is not the same way you copy and paste on a WINDOWS computer, but at the end of the day they are doing exactly the same thing. On a MAC computer pressing Command+C is to copy and pressing Command+V is to paste. On a WINDOWS computer pressing CTRL+C is to copy and pressing CTRL+V is to paste. Who is WINDOWS computer to say the only way to copy is pressing CTRL+C? And who's MAC computer to say the only way to paste is by pressing Command+V? Yet, this is what happened to us during slavery and colonialism- Europeans imposed their command on us, and shockingly we still hold it dear unable to realize the so called education was part of slavery!!. I' am waiting for the day Africans would realize this. Only education based on African mindset would solve our problem. I' am talking about a system of education based on African philosophy, not on white man's theories and language. Again, details on the link on my signature. 6 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by MedicMan1role1(f): 5:05pm On May 17, 2017 |
Very articulate pov. As a young boy coming up the ranks, and keenly interested in history, and antiestablishment... I have a lot to learn following someone like you. Education is the key to a greater future for us all. unfortunately what is obtainable is a very shoddy system of copy and paste, constant regurgitation and repetition of old ideas and theory and garbage in garbage out outcome. Everything has become too attached to the white mans dollar. So our mentality might never change. musicwriter: 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by NightKing21: 6:05pm On May 17, 2017 |
Nice write up dude... following musicwriter: |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by leofab(f): 6:55pm On May 17, 2017 |
Lack of proper orientation. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Desyner: 7:06pm On May 17, 2017 |
Lack of love like fire is 50% our P. Corruption like smoke is only symtom. If the northerner loved the ND man he wouldn't try to milk him at the expense of his poor people. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Quinn22(f): 7:42pm On May 17, 2017 |
Nice points musicwriter  We need to be educated about our true history, not the history the white men planted on us throughout time. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Quinn22(f): 9:02pm On May 17, 2017 |
"It takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone's culture" - Maya Angelou 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 9:12pm On May 17, 2017 |
spot on... There is a very difficult actions to be carried out to get out of this situation that Nigeria is in. I have always been a proponent for a restructure of the Nigerian project. There is a saying that life is an illusion, albeit a persisting one; and most of our leaders and elites have accepted the illusions of their status and are not willing for it to change. They have also succeeded in watering down our educational institutions that enables the masses, and continue to use poverty as a tool of subversion to keep people in line. We are being washed with a wave of foreign media that exalts the feats of the west. Our brightest mind absorb so much of these media and soon start to talk like them, dress like them, eat and drink like them, and not before long want to live amongst them.... It goes on and on. And as you aptly explained with the computer OS, its like we have become programmed to be white. The result is a large inferiority complex whereby an average Nigerian female would want to look fairer, dress like big brother prescribes, twist her tongue, and lose her value... so she could get some self worth (African societies have always placed high value on the role of the woman in the family, but today the mordenised African lady is often selfish because of a false sense of worth copied from western cultures.) Men have become lousier thereby raising more lousier men, this as a result of a kind of mental trap that makes a black man always feel inadequate and incompetent except at the size of his manhood (and oh! if that manhood is small u got twice the problem). We often choose the aspect of the western & eastern brainwashing that suits our perspective of pleasure... And God damn, don't we love the pleasures of life. your average African is very receptacle to pleasures, and easily excitable. Thus, religion then becomes a sort of check and balance orchestrated by gods of men, to check the pleasures of Gods living creatures, when it should be used as an avenue for raising awareness and consciousness. The fabric of religion as expressed in nigeria is a sight for sore eyes. It has totally been derailed and what the people now worship is money.... money and they go there to pray for lots of money. And let no one say that in African tradition the women were used as housewives because women before the advent of western civilisation were the custodian of the 3 of the 4 elements (Earth, water and fire). Which means the African woman put in more direct work in the home and out in society. It was the advent of modern times that created the sit at home house wives... Otherwise, the woman fetches water in the morning, works with the man in the farm in the afternoon and cooks for the home at night, and still plays many secondary roles in welfare of the home like selling off farm produce. Your average African man was like a lion; that snoozes whenever he can while the female hunts, but goes for his share before they can have a bite (lion share). It was the moral code imbibed in different (sub-saharan) African society that ensured that men were the head of the house, due to the important role of planning and security of the household and the community in general that men are naturally predisposed to play, and their function of belonging to a shared ancestry. We need to have a serious reorientation or a revolution would be inevitable cos this system employed, especially in Nigeria, does not work. musicwriter: 3 Likes |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by agabusta: 7:35am On May 18, 2017 |
LordCzar202: You took your time to write this? Big kudos to you. I hope we are free to share? And whom do we cite as the author please? |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by DBannedAssassin(m): 7:52am On May 18, 2017 |
OAM4J, mynd44... do the needful. not every time fake & irrelevant news, sometimes educate people as well. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by dmz1: 11:16am On May 18, 2017 |
@musicwriter nice points but how can you teach physics or engineering in Igbo? |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by musicwriter(m): 1:26pm On May 18, 2017 |
dmz1: The same way the JAPANESE do it using their language. The same way the CHINESE do it using their language. The same way the RUSSIANS do it using their language. The same way the ENGLISH do it using their language. The same way the KOREANS do it using their language. The same way the GERMANS do it using their language. The same way the SPANISH do it using their language. The same way the PORTUGUESE do it using their language. If we can't figure out how other civilizations did it using their own language, then I have to admit we're brain-dead as a people. However, the whole problem and how to go about it is what the link on my signature; part 1 and part 2 is all about. 1 Like |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Quinn22(f): 10:36pm On May 18, 2017 |
Musicwriter OMG!  I've been reading your blog all evening and it's so inspiring. You are right about "No language, no culture", if you take away the language you take away the culture and there will be no society. It's the language that makes a society grow and flourish. While I was reading your blog, I felt so sad because I came to the realisation that I would never experience my country Nigeria having a society that speaks its own language or make its language as the first language, not English.Because I get so sad and envious when I see society like China (everything they do is in their own language, hence the strong cultural background). It's so sad Nigeria can never be a society of its own language and culture  It's meant to be our reality but unfortunately thinking about Nigeria having a society like china, Japan is a fantasy  |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by musicwriter(m): 11:16pm On May 18, 2017 |
Quinn22: Thanks for reading. But, its not a fantasy to think of being like China or Japan. I strongly believe we would eventually realize that acquiring knowledge in English and making English a priority over our native languages is a disaster in Africa. What I don't know is when, but if it exceeds 35 years, we would get to a point on no-return. I believe we would eventually come back to our senses, and when we do, we would be far better than China or Japan. I don't believe these people are naturally more intelligent than us. I' am hopeful, because when the Roman empire was at the peak of their power, all their colonies spoke Latin which was the language of Rome. Nations ruled by the Roman empire (those in RED).  The above map shows nations once colonized by Rome, they all spoke Latin during Roman occupation of their lands. They had long reverted to speaking their native languages once Rome left. As a matter of fact, no two European nation speaks the same language. They all reverted back to their various original languages before Rome. That's what any intelligent people would do. If after 30-35 years, Africans haven't figured out how to discard the languages of our colonial masters, then it would be safe to say something is wrong with the brain of black people in Africa. Asian nations that were once also colonized like us; namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei,e.t.c had already reverted back to themselves, and they're reaping the benefits. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Quinn22(f): 11:47pm On May 18, 2017 |
I've lost hope for Nigeria because there's no sign of improvement anywhere, not even a cubic of improvement to show hope. I believe the black man is cursed, we are created to serve other people and suffer. musicwriter: |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 12:07am On May 19, 2017 |
Rossikkki Rossikki |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by Standing5(m): 10:59pm On May 20, 2017 |
Our problem isn't really language or communication but attitude. We have a certificate-first attitude. Most of the unis in Nigeria a degree awarding unis. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by MedicMan1role1(f): 2:42pm On May 26, 2017 |
But we are carried away by too much fantasy Standing5: |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by biafraone: 3:40pm On May 26, 2017 |
The problem with Nigeria and indeed Africa is quite many. But most profound is our heterogeneity. For how do we solve the cultural and language question identified by the author? Because China for example is China everywhere in China, it is easier for them to understand themselves and solve their problems the China way. Also the influence of religion coupled with the master - slave culture (something which in the bigger sphere of politics outside of family still persists) is another great challenge. Our culture does not encourage "radicalism". We just want to do everything the religious way. We do not want to question perceived authority no matter how bad their ideas and decisions are. That's the reason why every system we try to put up become dysfunction pretty soon. If we continue like this, we may eventually come out of the quagmire albeit in 100x100 years time. Man's problem is and has always has been about authority. Government made us the way we are. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 4:24pm On May 26, 2017 |
Well I believe our diversity is a strength The chinese have more cultures and languages than the Nigerian contraption but overtime adopted the mandarin language as their sole lingua franca. The only thing unfortunate with English and french as lingua franca is that they are foreign. but our adoption of them has helped us a great deal, even over the chinese on a global scale. biafraone: |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 4:25pm On May 26, 2017 |
LordCzar202: |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by DBannedAssassin(m): 4:48pm On May 26, 2017 |
Nice write up but people don't read this kinda shit on nairaland. misguided youths everywhere here. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by biafraone: 4:51pm On May 26, 2017 |
LordCzar202:good stuff |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by stonemasonn: 6:55pm On May 26, 2017 |
nice threads, l suggest that we teach our little kids mathematics and its usage. using whatever language they speak best, be it kanuri, Swahili, Fulani or English. believe me in 20 years we will catch up with the rest of the world. |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 7:16am On May 27, 2017 |
Yeah... mathematics is a universal language amd it instills the fundamentals of problem solving. The Nigeria of today lacks problem solvers but rather has an abundance of problem creators. @stonemasonn 1 Like |
| Re: All That Is Wrong With The Nigerian Mentality - Restoration (1) by LordCzar202: 7:27am On May 27, 2017 |
musicwriter: The problem is if we discard the foriegn lingua francas, what do we adopt as a common tongue? You cant go about speaking yoruba to a Kanuri man. But if we maintain the status quo and go on with promoting indigenous languages we can reverse this trend This can be done by only restructuring the present contraption called Nigeria into small federations under one Nigeria. This way, these little states can choose to be bi-lingual or multi-lingual, with an educational system that can impact the right manner of approaches to its now synchronised people. Nigeria is confused now cos we are a nation divided by many factors And i do concur with u. Cos many nations that speak their mother tongue in africa are beginning to have more political relevance in the continent |
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