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Nigeria: The People Who Stuck With The Name The Brits Gave Them by duketunde: 6:45pm On Oct 21, 2018
Saw this on FB and felt obliged to share it here.. The Brits who amalgamated and forced us into a union gave coined the name "Nigeria" for a people who had before the advent of British and other foreign slave traders had a standard government, culture and way of life. They shove their culture and way of life down our throat and gave us a government we understand not. Just so we can forget who we are. But instead of having a rethink, we all believe Mazi Nnamdi KANU or the Great Ojukwu is the problem...nah this are people who truly want to be identified with what's there's and not some forced alliance called Nigeria.

Please note that this country listed below started with a name coined by their colonial masters, but along the line they rediscovered themselves...

[b]*Brits named them _Burma,_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Myanmar!*

*Brits named them _Upper Volta,_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Burkina Faso,_ which means Land of Incorruptible People!*

*Brits named them _Gold Coast_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Ghana!_*

*Brits named them _Southern Rhodesia_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Zimbabwe!_*

*Brits named them _Northern Rhodesia,_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Zambia!_*

*Brits named them _Tanganyika_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Tanzania!_*

*Germans named them _colony of South West Africa,_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Namibia!_*

*France named them _Dahomey_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _Benin!_*

*Belgium named them _Zaire_ they rejected it and renamed themselves _DRC_ or _Democratic Republic of Congo!_*

*And the list goes on and on and on.....!*

*But Brits named a bunch of people _Nigeria_ and _they will rather kill to preserve it than reject it!_*

*"It is only an animal that bears the name that is given to it by another person"___ _Igbo Proverb_*

*Copied!*[/b]

Re: Nigeria: The People Who Stuck With The Name The Brits Gave Them by drips8(m): 8:40pm On Oct 21, 2018
Nigeria has too many ethnic groups, renaming Nigeria biafra or oodua nation is a huge disrespect to the other Ethnic groups.



We are way too diverse

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