If Nigeria was a classroom, picture your secondary school days for a minute... and then break down Nigerian classroom based on the behaviorial patterns, character plots and disposition of each major ethnic groups...

The Hausa/fulani will always be the bullies, senior prefects, they will be that usual haughty, arrogant and self-appointed classroom leaders who always want to be the ones to write down names of noise makers even when they aren't academically sound enough to stomach these lofty positions... yet everyone seems to fear them.

The Yorubas will be the crafty students who TODAY will be friends/parleys with the common students who hate and want to stand up to excesses of the annoying Hausa/fulani senior prefects... And then TOMORROW the same "friends" will go behind your back and snitch on you to the Hausa/fulani senior prefects just to stay in the safe "neutral zone" or just out of sheer opportunism... I call these category the "IN-BETWEENERS", they are very bright academically and know how to play the classroom politics to stay in favorable positions... they just want to play it safe and graduate so personal integrity, honor and loyalty is negotiable to them.


The Igbos will be the noise makers, the "do your worse" rebels in the classroom who are ready to roll their sleeves and get dirty with anyone who wants to intimidate them, they are seen as too obstinate, tact-less and less pliable by the Hausa/Fulani Senior prefects who demand unquestionable submissiveness... Nobody likes these category of students cause they are not only academically very astute and on top of their game, they are generally seen as a threat to the order of established classroom authority. If there's always a serious fight with other students in the classroom, it's most likely from these set of students... Dem get coconut head, dem no dey hear word... but dem still dey graduate every year as dem sabi book wella.

Lastly, the studious and methodically observant students - the South South ethnic groups and other minority groups in Nigeria fall into these category... sometimes they can be outspoken, and when they do they team up with the stubborn Igbo students... But most times they just want to avoid the crazy energy from the Igbo students and largely mind their own business, they just want to be treated with respect, they just want to stay in their study groups and focus on their books so they can graduate... these group of students typically come from very rich and privileged homes, so they don't really resonate with the rebel spirit of the Igbo students, they hardly resonate with the diplomatic, smart and brilliantly manipulative Yoruba students or the stoic and authoritarian mannerisms of the less intelligent yet politically vivacious Northern students.

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