It’s the height of idiocy and ignorance to be a ‘tribalist’.
The ‘tribalism’ you espouse was instigated by the British colonialists.
They created language based “tribes” to create large blocs of internal division and rivalry in order to prevent us uniting to topple them.
Then they had ‘favoured’ tribes in order to heighten those divisions. Eg Hausas in Nigeria. It was ALL deliberate.
Prior to their invasion we didn’t have “Yoruba people”.
We had Yoruba - SPEAKING PEOPLES.
We did not have “Igbo people”.
We had Igbo - SPEAKING PEOPLES.
They were not united as groups. If a problem arose they went to war among themselves, one town versus the other, both speaking the same language. There was no sense of unity merely because they spoke the same language.
Go and read Things Fall Apart by Achebe. A neighbouring town or village was regarded as a different country or society.
SO STOP BEING BRITISH PUPPETS.
Before they came we identified by our lineage, not by the language we spoke.
Because people migrated all the time and learned the language and customs of wherever they settled, since there was no lingua franca commonly spoken by all and sundry, like English or Pidgin.
Depending on your propensity for travel, you could be a ‘Yoruba’ at birth, and by the time you are 30 years be a “Hausa man” together with your kids after migrating north and acculturating. You might even decide to migrate at 50 years old down to the East with your family, and you would become “Igbos”. You would get there, learn their language and adopt their gods and customs.
That’s how it was.
In fact if you do an ancestral DNA test you might be shocked by where you REALLY come from.
If you are ‘Igbo’ you might discover your ancestors migrated from Sokoto or Oyo, 300 years ago.
If you are ‘Yoruba’ you might discover your ancestors migrated from Umuahia or Cameroon 300 years ago and settled in Ijebu or Ile-Ife.
NONE OF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE REALLY FROM UNTIL YOU DO AN ANCESTRAL DNA TEST.
Don't take this slowpoke and nincompoop Kemetian seriously, just a small boy with mental health issues!
Nigeria, an ENGLISH speaking country of 200 million people known for having the most educated and successful people globally chose an illiterate and an incoherent criminal to represent it at the world stage, instead of people like Okonjo-Iweala and Wole Soyinka!.
As such, Nigeria is humiliated and jeered at daily by the world because of their choice of an area boy who cannot express himself anywhere near the likes of the leaders of Rwanda, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia etc.
Culture › Re: Why Your Tribalism Is So Dumb, And Makes You A British Puppet by Jd1900: 8:07pm On Nov 22, 2024
