A recent BBC report revealed that two-thirds of Nigeria is under some kind of strife.

In the northern states, jihadist attacks have become frequent and blatant. Almost at will, jihadists kidnap school girls to exploit as sex slaves. Beheadings, shootings, car bombings and burning of houses leave displaced and traumatised communities. In the middle states, clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers leave tens of dead and injured.

The delta states are agitating for their independence, and their attacks on soldiers and government installations are frequent and deadly. Still in the south, agitation for an independent state of Biafra has been revived. In large cities like Lagos, criminal gangs are rampant, often kidnapping people for ransom. Nigeria is a messy, chaotic, corrupt and, as famed Nigerian writer Okey Ndibe described it, “an ill-formed organism.”

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe writes about the disintegration of the African traditional society under colonial pressures. The title of the book is borrowed from the poem The Second Coming by WB Yeats. The poem is a frightening vision of a society in the process of disintegration. Yeats writes in part: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”

It is uncanny that Yeats’ vision of a society in apocalyptic throes, which Achebe used as a metaphor for the fragmentation of African traditional society in the late 19th century, would come to describe the current state of Nigeria! With the country engulfed in all of the strife, can the centre hold?

The brightest Nigerians lack conviction that the centre will hold, and take every chance to emigrate. The youth, brought up on the staple of false nationalist rituals like Independence Day ceremonies, singing the anthem, and waving the flag, are drowning in the chaos of corruption and misgovernment that has robbed them of a future. They, too, are looking towards Europe or America for salvation.

And the violent deeds of the worst — the jihadists, the separatists, criminal gangs, the ethnic warriors — get increasingly depraved. Should Nigeria collapse, the tsunami this would cause would ripple across the world. Millions of Nigerian refugees. Instances of genocide.

Skyrocketing oil prices. A humanitarian crisis the world has not seen since the end of World War II. There would also be a heavier insidious cost; the total annihilation of the self-esteem of Africans. If the most intellectually and artistically gifted, and the most industrious African country can fail, what hope do we have for smaller less-endowed African countries that simmer with the same kinds of strife that now threaten to tear Nigeria apart?

This column has warned many times that we Africans must urgently begin a ruthless introspection, and ask: Are we going in the right direction? Otherwise, we will soon find ourselves caught in the widening gyre of apocalyptic chaos while chanting hackneyed pan-African platitudes.

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/oped/comment/things-falling-apart-in-nigeria-3399908

tauceti23:
Ah well, come 2023, OP will be singing a different tune, and his opposite numbers will be singing a different tune too.

When Nigerians are not a part of the chopping, that's when you hear them sing 'Nigeria is in trobule'.

The sad thing is, it is very difficult to distinguish them from those genuinely concerened about Nigeria.

PeaceforNigeria:


The article is from the Kenya Press not the Nigerian Press. Did you even look at the headline ?

tauceti23:


And you are positing it because it serves your agenda.

Just as your opposite numbers will post articles on how Nigeria is ok, and doing fine because it serves their agenda.

Come 2023....we know you will be under the rain protection mechanism.....just as some will be lining up behind the anti-dirt mechanism....

As for me....Nigerians need to wake up.

PeaceforNigeria:


No, I posted it because it is 1000& TRUE.

I care not for one party over the other. Nigeria needs reformation not election. No justice = no peace.

tauceti23:


And you are positing it because it serves your agenda.

Just as your opposite numbers will post articles on how Nigeria is ok, and doing fine because it serves their agenda.

Come 2023....we know you will be under the rain protection mechanism.....just as some will be lining up behind the anti-dirt mechanism....

As for me....Nigerians need to wake up.

MODIFIED

Just for the record, I am tired of those who say Nigeria is on the verge of destruction, and at the same time tired of those who say Nigeria is on the verge of prosperity. Both have an agenda....and it isn't development.

GodHatesBigots:


The only agenda in Nigeria is the agenda of the Cabal and their looting partners.

We are just ordinary people who want a change in Nigeria, so we post and speak the Harsh unbuttered truth.

tauceti23:


No, Nigeria needs people to stop voting for bad leaders, to stop looking for division because they think it means they will get more money to chop, to stop thinking that there is a national cake, and start looking for industrial development, and to stop setting up businesses depenent on importing stuff, and so on.

PeaceforNigeria:

tauceti23:



Hmm, so you think I am hiding my head in the sand.

Well, this your image confirms my suspcions, your posting this article is to promote your agenda.

Stop looking for a national cake. There is no cake.

PeaceforNigeria:


I have my own cake, the cake I built, and I eat it with my family – it is a big nice cake and it will last us for years.

Most Nigerians don’t want the National cake, they want the environment, freedom, and tools to make their own cake.
The leaders of the nation unfortunately are more interested in the national cake and a Fulani led Jihad.


Again :

tauceti23:


PDP man, your mask is slipping.

Plus that image is so you, not me.

Again, stop looking for a national cake, you and your hausa, yoruba, fulani, etc, friends. Go and join a party, and be the change you want to be.

And stop supporting secession...because you feel left out of the chopping.(yes, you have posted pro-Biafra threads here, despite your monicker, so don't deny it)