scud: Because the bible says so. God said I will set an egyptian against an egyptian!

The Egyptians, though physically located on the African Soil, do not consider themselves as Africans, per say. Together with the likes of Algeria, Morocco, Lybia, etc, regard themselves and are classified/regarded as Arabs. And, please do not bring the book of fictions and folklores, called the Bible, into this crucially important debate that all Nigerians and, in deed, all Africans (South of the Sahara) should seriously be reflecting upon.

Patsey:

The Egyptians, though physically located on the African Soil, do not consider themselves as Africans, per say. Together with the likes of Algeria, Morocco, Lybia, etc, regard themselves and are classified/regarded as Arabs. And, please do not bring the book of fictions and folklores, called the Bible, into this crucially important debate that all Nigerians and, in deed, all Africans (South of the Sahara) should seriously be reflecting upon.

When ever the bible refered to Egypt, it refered to Africa.. OTHERWISE, Africa would not be in the Bible at all.. PLUS!! God hated Africans (according to Egpyt)

igbo2011: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/600155_10150877802558994_1941261420_n.jpg Why do we treat the foreigners who are exploiting us better than our own people? No wonder why everyone in the world treats us badly. We dn't even treat ourselves well!!

OP: You're aboslutely right and, in fact, you have resurrected, on NL, a thought that has not departed my heart for a minute for many years. I raised a similar question, sometime ago, on NL. See details below.

Erelu_Y: [b]Wherever you go, Europeans, Americans and Australasians are treated in Nigeria like monarchs, princes and princesses, when many (certainly not all) Nigerians are, by and large, treated like bullshit in Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Years ago, when I was studying in one of the earliest Nigerian Universities (established in the 1960s), one of my professors who studied for his master’s degree in the USA and his doctorate degree in the UK, systematically frustrated virtually all the expats on the campus and most of them (excepting those married to Nigerians) angrily left for their respective countries. On a few occasions, I challenged why he was doing it and he said we give too much privileges and opportunities to the whites who would not let blacks have 0.001% of such privileges and opportunities in Europe, North America and Australasia. He narrated how he suffered discrimination, prejudices and racism whilst he was studying in North America and Europe, and hence, his resolve to pay them back in their own coin. I was never persuaded by his argument at that time. More recently, however, I now totally agree with him so much so that when I finally return home any European, American and Australasian that cross my path MUST be unsympathetically crushed. See how BP is handling the Oil Spillage in the Gulf of Mexico, and compare their reactions to the way in which they deal with environmental degradation in the Niger Delta. Will the Nigerian government and Nigerians in general be ever resolved to treat its citizens, and fellow citizens, like first class citizens and foreigners as foreigners? Fellow Nigerians what do you think?[/b]

https://www.nairaland.com/447503/treating-europeans-americans-australasians-like

Fellow Nigerians and Africans, we need to have something done about this, and urgently too. Curriculum in publicly and privately funded schools needs to address this plague, ASAP.

its inferiority complex, people like that are what Malcolm X referred to as "House Negroes"

shymmex: Slavery, colonization, and b1tchazzness.

To blame our attitude on slave trade is to bury our heads in the sands. Check your history: During the era of slave trade, the white men did not wage war of attrition around our towns just to capture us as slaves. They stayed at the coast in their ships and it was our own people that did the raiding and the capturing of the the slaves inland. All for what? In exchange for salt, guns and freaking mirrors!

But I agree that colonialism contributed (but is not an excuse) for our hatred for each other. This is because essentially, the white man drew imaginary lines around Africa and named some portions Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, etc. And NONE of the people so encircled by these artificial boundaries agreed (at least not willingly) to be part of their so-called Nations. That is why virtually ALL contemporary wars in Africa can be traced to ethnic issues: (Nigeria, Liberia, Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan) and even recently the civil strife over leadership in Kenya proves that most African nations are formed by 'incompatible' tribes.

This is why we in Nigeria need to stop deceiving ourselves. We are very different and the earlier we acknowledge our differences and respect the need to re-negotiate our terms of existence, the better for us. I always say, the only kind relationship whose membership is non-negotiable, is a cult. Seriously, what the eff does 'Nigeria' actually mean culturally to you and to me? The word 'Niger' is not native to any tribe in Nigeria. Must it remain so because Lord Luggard's mistress gave us that name? Wazobia is to me a more culturally relevant name for this country. But as Nigerians, many of us are allergic to change of the progressive type....and that is why we seem to be perpetually swimming in the same 5hit for over 50 years. Every aspect of nationhood matters - including a country's name, which is required for shared values, common identity and sense of belonging.

What does it actually mean to be a Nigerian? Think about it!

Abeg u r an egyptian o. Egyptians were blacks in those days before the present arabs came. Egypt is hamitic which is black

Patsey:

The Egyptians, though physically located on the African Soil, do not consider themselves as Africans, per say. Together with the likes of Algeria, Morocco, Lybia, etc, regard themselves and are classified/regarded as Arabs. And, please do not bring the book of fictions and folklores, called the Bible, into this crucially important debate that all Nigerians and, in deed, all Africans (South of the Sahara) should seriously be reflecting upon.

Majority of Egyptians and North Africans are not 'culturally' Africans, but even in Egypt of today, you will find aborigene people (Nubians). Similarly in places like Algeria you will find indigenous (non-arab) people known as Kabyle tribes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_people) among which the Berbers are the most prominent e.g. people like Zenedine Zidane are Berbers even though he has an Arab name. Also read the history of North Africa during the Roman Empire (Hannibal the warrior king, the city state of Carthage, etc). You will realise that North Africa has always been occupied by Berbers and other aborigine/nomad ethnicities. Arabs moved in and the region dominated much later, especially during the spread of Islam when Arabs colonised places as far as Spain (Andalusia).

So not-suprisingly, most North Africans (especially Egyptians) do not consider themselves Africans. The twarts! But can you blame them? Based on how we (other Africans) have conducted ourselves? But the real question now is: what does it mean to be African? Is it your ethnic group? The colour of your skin? Your geographic location? Or your propensity to violence and inter-ethnic hatred.

To answer this, Africa is a geographical expression and a location. But Africa is also partly a socio-cultural phenomenon. However, Africa is only marginally a linked to your race or your skin colour - because the dark skinned people of Papua New Guinea are definitely NOT Africans. Being African is therefore, a mind thing: just like being American is also a function of your mentality and belief in the American dream. Until we understand and respect these fundamental principles, we wont understand nationhood... or what it means to be a Nigerian for that matter.

in many ways we are similar to the black americans...

american....Nigeria
House niggas; Rulers, people closer to oyinbo/// Field niggas: agepako, common people

very few africans i have meet have hardly had an arguement with whites, they would try their best to be reasonable..put those same people with black counterparts, and you would see all manner of grammar on display!!

If I start to talk about this I could be on it all day and all night long. the problems of africa is the africans themselves we consider ourselves inferior to anybody who is non african. Like soemone said we never argue with them. Its so bad that if a white man admires something we adopt it even if its useless. A white racist said that U dont have to kill ni99ers just give them guns they'll kill themselves. If being black was like clothes Id remove mine and burn them.

drzed: Majority of Egyptians and North Africans are not 'culturally' Africans, but even in Egypt of today, you will find aborigene people (Nubians). Similarly in places like Algeria you will find indigenous (non-arab) people known as Kabyle tribes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_people) among which the Berbers are the most prominent e.g. people like Zenedine Zidane are Berbers even though he has an Arab name. Also read the history of North Africa during the Roman Empire (Hannibal the warrior king, the city state of Carthage, etc). You will realise that North Africa has always been occupied by Berbers and other aborigine/nomad ethnicities. Arabs moved in and the region dominated much later, especially during the spread of Islam when Arabs colonised places as far as Spain (Andalusia).

So not-suprisingly, most North Africans (especially Egyptians) do not consider themselves Africans. The twarts! But can you blame them? Based on how we (other Africans) have conducted ourselves? But the real question now is: what does it mean to be African? Is it your ethnic group? The colour of your skin? Your geographic location? Or your propensity to violence and inter-ethnic hatred.

To answer this, Africa is a geographical expression and a location. But Africa is also partly a socio-cultural phenomenon. However, Africa is only marginally a linked to your race or your skin colour - because the dark skinned people of Papua New Guinea are definitely NOT Africans. Being African is therefore, a mind thing: just like being American is also a function of your mentality and belief in the American dream. Until we understand and respect these fundamental principles, we wont understand nationhood... or what it means to be a Nigerian for that matter.

Thanks for expatiating fully on the viewpoint I initially expressed. I absolutely agree with your analysis which explains why I mooted the opinion that schools' curricula need to address this problem. From Wales to Scotland and from Northern Ireland to England , the British (i.e. English, Scotish, Welsh and Northern Irish) would never, unduly, privilege an immigrant over and above their own kith and kin. In fact, the idea of 'PLASTIC BRITS' is to further differentiate, delineate and alienate 'WHITE ETHNIC BRITISH' from 'NON WHITE BRITISH', including those who acquired BC through naturalisation. My gut feeling is that members of the various nations within the so-called Nigerian state need a new pattern of enculturation and socialisation through which clearly re-formulated notions of nationhood and citizenship is inculcated and entrenched. Our sociologists, anthropologists, historians, curriculum experts, etc, need to collaborate on this matter. Do you know if any intellectual discourses on this matter hold in our nations' educational institutions and, if they do, how could such discourses transcend mere rhetorics?

Atheist:-D:


We are not Egyptian.

In the days of the bible Egypt was black African. In fact 99% of the pharoahs were blacks, and blacks built the pyramids and grand temples and monuments of Egypt. Thousands of years ago, blacks were the most advanced, educated, and respected race on earth. At some point they allowed a few of the whites (Greeks) into Egypt and taught them the sciences, mathematics, medicine, architecture etc, which was what led to the rise of Greek civilization, and from it, the western civilization of today.

Truth is Africans have no reason to feel less than anyone else. Without the early African pioneers, there would be no civilization to speak of today.

Here are the words of Lady Flora Shaw, the historian wife of Lord Lugard, first British governor general of Nigeria:

Flora Shaw's (alias Lady Flora Lugard) book is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of the Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing the detail and descriptive power, and the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that:

"When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come."

"The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the tallest, most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race."

Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, Black Classic Press (1996)

I hope the reason for this topic is for Africans to learn to love other Africans as they do their own tribe, without abandoning the good hospitality they give foreigners.

Erelu_Y:


Thanks for expatiating fully on the viewpoint I initially expressed. I absolutely agree with your analysis which explains why I mooted the opinion that schools' curricula need to address this problem. From Wales to Scotland and from Northern Ireland to England , the British (i.e. English, Scotish, Welsh and Northern Irish) would never, unduly, privilege an immigrant over and above their own kith and kin. In fact, the idea of 'PLASTIC BRITS' is to further differentiate, delineate and alienate 'WHITE ETHNIC BRITISH' from 'NON WHITE BRITISH', including those who acquired BC through naturalisation. My gut feeling is that members of the various nations within the so-called Nigerian state need a new pattern of enculturation and socialisation through which clearly re-formulated notions of nationhood and citizenship is inculcated and entrenched. Our sociologists, anthropologists, historians, curriculum experts, etc, need to collaborate on this matter. Do you know if any intellectual discourses on this matter hold in our nations' educational institutions and, if they do, how could such discourses transcend mere rhetorics?

You have raised some interesting and valid points which resonate very well with me. Since leaving the university many years ago, I have long deduced that one of the most important (but underrated) agency in Nigeria is the National Orientation Agency (NOA). It has the mandate to change our perception and attitude of our country, but alas, most of what I see or hear is just jingles on NTA or FM stations. This is because the NOA lacks the capacity, the vision and the requisite leadership necessary to make it impactful.

Our historians, sociologist and curriculum experts in Nigeria can help, but the truth is few of them are actually very professional in their jobs. Many people who studied these courses did so because it was the last resort to getting a degree or diploma. They couldnt care less about their professional contribution to nation-building. But our schools and curriculum do hold promise to a new Nigeria. The challenge for the schools therefore is what the content or context of the curricula on nationalism, patriotism and tolerance should be. Again, I ask: what does it mean to be a Nigerian? People migrate to America for the American dream. Apart from coming to take advantage of our lawless society, tax evasion and corruption, which foreigner do you know that actually 'wants' to be a Nigerian?

A new Nigeria cannot happen overnight. It is along term project that requires a peaceful atmosphere, but peace itself cannot endure without justice and equality. Justice and equality can only be attained when people (out of their own free volition) agree to the terms of their existence. Nobody asked my tribe/kingdom whether they wanted to be part of Nigeria and today, I personally dont see how Nigeria has benefited me and my people who are just another of the many tribes in Nigeria. Yes, I and many people like me have listened to Kennedy's advice (think what you can do for your country and not what your country can do for you): but do you know how ANNOYING it is for someone to press buttons, pull strings, lobby (and be asked for bribe) simply because they offered their services to Nigeria? Do you know? Well, that is a summary of why many Nigerians travel out and why many of them abroad are not particularly eager to return to Nigeria.

Having said that, Nigerians are currently too aggrieved to talk and listen respectfully to one another. But the best way forward is to make the central leadership of Nigeria very unattractive so that people will focus on their towns and local governments, rather than salivating over the national cow; whose udders are being sucked dry even as we speak. Plato stated in his book (Republic) that: The state in which the rulers are reluctant to govern is always the best (and most quietly governed) while the state in which the rulers are most eager to govern is the worst.

I am not drifting from the subject matter, on why we Africans/Nigerians hate our own people, because clearly, you can see that it boils down to how we restructure our existence, our governance and our leadership systems in Nigeria. If we dont take necessary and fundamental steps, 50 years from today, our elections will still be decided on the tribe (and religion) of the contestants. This attitude can never bring progress. As bad as Nigeria is today, I fear that our kids may refer to our times as the good ol days.

The Nigerian economic and political system needs major overhaul and restructuring. Period.

Everyone should look in the mirror and start with themselves. It's as simple as communication. The way you communicate in your tribe/culture is different from others so we should all have more patience with one another. Some of us are addicted to confrontation and want to dominate or feel better than the next person. Simple respect and putting forth effort for communication and exercising patience.

^ by "us" i assume you mean whichever non-nigerian country you hail from.

gator_666: Why do (some) Africans say sometimes "You are an expat, you can figure this out" when we are facing some difficult problem?

Why don't you direct your question to those Africans who tell you that "you are an expat, you can figure this out"? should'nt you be asking those Africans directly (in person) or did the cat bite your tongue?

Erelu_Y:

OP: You're aboslutely right and, in fact, you have resurrected, on NL, a thought that has not departed my heart for a minute for many years. I raised a similar question, sometime ago, on NL. See details below.



https://www.nairaland.com/447503/treating-europeans-americans-australasians-like

Erelu,

You are on point. I am personally so tired of Nigerians and Africans in generally 'worshipping' foreigners. I have complained about that here on nairaland too on some threads. I have spent many years abroad and I can say that I have never lived in a western advanced society so far where the locals/indigenes treated me better than their fellow indigenes. It is only whilst living in Nigeria that I noticed that a Nigerian will treat a westerner/oyibo/asian/arab better than they will treat their fellow Nigerians. It is just baffling to me and very sad.

If one cannot be treated well by one's own people, then what hope is there for us? Why should I be treated like crap outside Africa and then come home to be treated like crap again or even worse by my own people on my own turf and in my own country? As a people, we need to change our mindset. Maybe, most Africans on the continent are not aware of how Africans are treated so badly outside their homelands. Maybe, some Africans are just suffering from a severe case of inferiority complex. I just don't know what to blame this behaviour of hating one's own on. I don't know where our people inherited such a sick, demented mindset.

I have been around caucasians for the most part of my life and I am yet to see the big deal about them. They (caucasians) are not God and succumb to illness and death like everyone else. Alot of them are not as intelligent as they seem because they are very conniving and are experts in stealing ideas from other racial groups and then presenting it as their ideas and findings without giving proper credit to the originator. I agree with your suggestion that our school curriculum needs to be changed and children should be thought history at a young age to properly shape their perception about themselves, their country, their ethnicity and their history. Without doing so, we will see more Nigerians trying very hard to emulate everything foreign with disastrous results.

d same tin bothering my mind. Am begining to dislike all blacks all africans , especially all nigerians females. Both young and old. Dey all lack manners and very disgusting. Dis is jus my one week visit to uk. is so bad. D whites ladies are more nicers dan i expected. No wonder a black nation cant move forward. F***king niggas and bitches. I aint marryin a black p***y again

First, we have to chose either to be "a well-fed Slave or an Hungry Free Man"...

NIGERIANS ARE THE MOST SELF HATING AND BRAIN WASHED AFRICANS YOU WILL EVER COME ACROSS, SEE A BRAINWASHED NIGERIAN IN ACTION:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjmr2zJJV0&list=PLFD8F455656FD6BB2&index=1&feature=plcp

ANOTHER BRAINWASHED NIGERIAN:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Jbmiyr1Mo&list=UUYwwH8JFSsDlhSxfmj4JhdQ&index=10&feature=plcp

Is a colonization mentality.

AND THESE OYIBO WILL IN TURN TREAT US LIKE A RAG IN THEIR COUNTRY. GOD HELP US

[b]@drzed. TBH., I haven't been on NL since Nov 2011, or thereabout. This is because, constructive discourses, IMHO, weren't largely holding on the majority of the fora here on NL. But I find your responses very thoughtful, insightful and engaging. In fact, I cannot - broadly speaking - fault anything you've said. For example, I am one of those Nigerians who felt and still feel that Nigeria did absolutely nothing to make me who I am today. Nonetheless, on completing my studies here in the UK, I was ready to return home to contribute my own LITTLE quota to Nigeria's future or for posterity. But, I quickly realised how I could end up wasting away in Nigeria and I decided not to return home, at least for now. In spite of securing my dream job here in the UK, the 'racist card' including the 'Plastic British' politics, amongst other things, led me to raise a similar question on this site. I personally know many who have similar experience, share similar view and had taken the same decision. I 'met' a guy here on NL. He lectures here in the UK and wanted to return to Nigeria to teach, believing he has something to offer the future generations. He came to this site to seek opinions ( https://www.nairaland.com/449990/relocating-back-nigeria-lecture-university ). Not only was his thread derailed, he was vilified here on this site and he ended up shelving the idea. Before you think I am digressing, if it were to be a Caucasian British, American or Canadian, even a Romanian or Lithuanian, who posted a similar thread, fellow Nigerians are more than likely to welcome him with open hands and encourage him to relocate to Nigeria to lend a helping hand.[/b]

dasparrow: I am personally so tired of Nigerians and Africans in generally 'worshipping' foreigners...I have never lived in a western advanced society so far where the locals/indigenes treated me better than their fellow indigenes. It is only whilst living in Nigeria that I noticed that a Nigerian will treat a westerner/oyibo/asian/arab better than they will treat their fellow Nigerians. It is just baffling to me and very sad...Our school curriculum needs to be changed and children should be thought history at a young age to properly shape their perception about themselves, their country, their ethnicity and their history. Without doing so, we will see more Nigerians trying very hard to emulate everything foreign with disastrous results.

Absolutely right, dasparrow. You're spot on!

dasparrow: I just don't know what to blame this behaviour of hating one's own on. I don't know where our people inherited such a sick, demented mindset.

Don't forget that there were countless of intra-tribal and inter-tribal warfare across sub-Sahara Africa, which fuelled trans-Atlantic slave trade. Trading-off one another in this day and age, IMHO, translates into selling one another off into modern day slavery. It's, therefore, probably in our DNA.

huh??

AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF THE SAME BRAINWASHING AND WHITE SUPREMACY THAT IS DESTROYING AFRICANS:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H598X1r7xeE&feature=player_embedded

Everyone wants to be happy that's our purpose of living ....I like the whites cos of their lovingfilled way of living....

Erelu_Y: @drzed. TBH., I haven't been on NL since Nov 2011, or thereabout. This is because, constructive discourses, IMHO, weren't largely holding on the majority of the fora here on NL. But I find your responses very thoughtful, insightful and engaging. In fact, I cannot - broadly speaking - fault anything you've said. For example, I am one of those Nigerians who felt and still feel that Nigeria did absolutely nothing to make me who I am today. Nonetheless, on completing my studies here in the UK, I was ready to return home to contribute my own LITTLE quota to Nigeria's future or for posterity. But, I quickly realised how I could end up wasting away in Nigeria and I decided not to return home, at least for now. In spite of securing my dream job here in the UK, the 'racist card' including the 'Plastic British' politics, amongst other things, led me to raise a similar question on this site. I personally know many who have similar experience, share similar view and had taken the same decision. I 'met' a guy here on NL. He lectures here in the UK and wanted to return to Nigeria to teach, believing he has something to offer the future generations. He came to this site to seek opinions ( https://www.nairaland.com/449990/relocating-back-nigeria-lecture-university ). Not only was his thread derailed, he was vilified here on this site and he ended up shelving the idea. Before you think I am digressing, if it were to be a Caucasian British, American or Canadian, even a Romanian or Lithuanian, who posted a similar thread, fellow Nigerians are more than likely to welcome him with open hands and encourage him to relocate to Nigeria to lend a helping hand.

Don't forget that there were countless of intra-tribal and inter-tribal warfare across sub-Sahara Africa, which fuelled trans-Atlantic slave trade. Trading-off one another in this day and age, IMHO, translates into selling one another off into modern day slavery. It's, therefore, probably in our DNA.

Well, I am neither surprised that the guy was vilified here on Nairaland nor am I surprised that he shelved his plans. Anyone who ventures to bring their problem to Nairaland must first acquire a thick skin. In fact, my advice to people who cant stand the heat is: if you REALLY need help but dont have the time/patience to differentiate insult from advice on Nairaland, then quietly send internal email to selected people who you either follow or trust on Nairaland. They wont mind giving you honest advice, privately.

I have visited the link you posted above about your friend. Someone named violet told your friend the following:

violet: ....But you have been far too foolish to expect more (or less) than you've got so far. After more than 100 posts committed into Nairaland it should have dawned on you ages ago that Nairaland is full of teenagers, loafers, dimwits and sundry lunatics and so, hardly the place to go asking any serious question about matters that are close to your heart and especially matters on which your life may depend.

Those who attacked him probably did it out of childishness, envy, jealousy (probably a mixture of all three) or it was due to the good ol pure hatred for fellow Africans - which this thread is actually all about, i.e. Africans hating each other just for the heck of it.

Now just imagine what that chap of yours must have been thinking: "I asked for advice from Nigerians and I am being insulted and vilified....what will now happen when I actually apply for a job in Nigeria?" Trust me, if he is not careful, all that zeal and energy for 'come back home and contribute to my fatherland' will disappear in a whirlwind of tribalism, victimisation, bring-him-down, bad-belle and nepotism. That is after he has lobbied and bribed his way...to serve his OWN country. Many Nigerians dont respect or appreciate that line of thinking. Majority of us only respect money and dont care how you came about about it. And if you happen to speak with a foreign accent (through no fault of yours) you'd better be damned rich cos the bad-belles and haters will devour you like hyenas breaking their ramadan fast.

Anyway, maybe as you suggested, hating is in our DNA. There are truly two kinds of black people - Players and Player haters. And I have long decoded our people as generally happy to see you doing well.... but not better than them. So sometimes, it is actually clever to feign suffering or poverty just to avoid evil eyes.

igbo2011: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/600155_10150877802558994_1941261420_n.jpg

Why do we treat the foreigners who are exploiting us better than our own people? No wonder why everyone in the world treats us badly. We dn't even treat ourselves well!!

The reason is that foreigners are just better and organized that us so it always give that illusion. When fool steal and exploit, it is done with ignorance and senselessness to gross unimaginable level to oppress but when an organized people do they will just take it and leave and laugh at the failure of others.

It is more like when your parents you thought could not harm you is doing the harm,which it is unbearable, than somebody far away does. It is least expected people to harm you is the most appalling in this case.

"Britons do not like black foreigners" is a bit of a sweeping statement. While it's true that some Britons don't like black foreigners the vast majority couldn't care less about skin colour. All that most Britons(regardless of colour) consider is a willingness to be here and a willingness to contribute.

We Africans do not value ourselves in anyway. Actually, I will go a step further and plagiarize from the OP. We actively hate one other with a twisted, burning passion.

This is especially shown in how we are aggressive in tearing each other down, crass civil unrest, ethnic jingoism, insatiable desire to lord and dominate our own, our enthusiastic consumption of foreign goods and news and institutions, hatred of our physical features, etc.

In summary, yes it's all about our subconscious self-hatred and reverence for others we deem to be "above" us in being "what we are not".

How to put an end to it? Serious, well planned and strategic reprogramming of our minds. Social propaganda and counter brain-washing.