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To the person who asked the question: you like a person willing to learn about Nigerian culture, i appreciate you for that, for whatever motivated you to ask the question, i think is a good thing.

but what you must understand about Nigerian people is, the tend to ascribe the name satan to every little thing they don't understand or anything that scares them, most people in Nigeria still believe animated movies are the work of witchcraft.

If you must understand the Ogboni fraternity, you must look at it from different perspectives, other than that of fear and Christianity and the lies that people make up about them, you must see it with the eyes of a historian and an intellectual.

The Ogboni fraternity before colonialism was a thriving religious order, but after Christianity took hold in Nigeria it grew unpopular, now Nigerian christian have reduced it with their lies to a group hungry for wealth and human blood, all lies that have no foundation or proof, most christians just believe anything they are told without asking where that information came from or if there was any proof.

the fraternity was not just religious but also performed social functions too.

Yinkaa, always ask questions about anything you're told.

I shall put my faith in apc this time, i choose to have faith in Nigerian politics once more, i still believe Nigerian politicians can be honest for once, apc is at least a better option than pdp because pdp has proved itself to be untrustworthy but i am willing to give apc the benefit of the doubt.

what then is to be done, there's talk of a revolution looming, to be honest if anyone sparks i'll back 'em with alacrity. [color=#990000][/color]

When Nigerians hit a peak of frustration with their nation and its many problems, they often express a desire for a revolution. Many public figures have gone on record to call for a popular revolution citing it as the only solution to Nigeria's troubles. This revolution is largely imagined as no more than an apocalyptic blood and thunder eruption of popular anger. Advocates of a Nigerian revolution, for the most part, have in mind an anarchic meltdown of society; an overthrow of existing structures by collective brigandage.






This is precisely why national transformation has seemed impossible thus far. Our concept and expectation of revolution is intrinsically flawed. We certainly need a revolution but reducing it to unmitigated violence is simplistic.

Social critics err gravely in idealizing popular anger as the sole requisite for a revolution. Anger no matter how widespread isn't sufficient to bring about a true change. Where such anger erupts in some form of civil disturbance, it will be dealt with precisely as such; a breach of public peace and put down decisively. Most times when the state has opted to meet force with force, popular anger has proven no match for the might of the state. A case in point is Tianenmen Square in 1989 where the Chinese government brutally crushed a student uprising.

Victor Hugo once said, " No army can withstand an idea whose time has come." He was right. Ideology and not anger is the spirit of revolution. Every revolution or mass movement is animated by some idea or guiding principle. Anger is important but only as the emotional energy component of a revolution. When people become tired of an oppressive system, they get angry and throw its yoke off their shoulders. But without an ideological alternative to that yoke of oppression, they are sure to end up substituting one form of oppression for another; discarding the lash of whips for the lash of scorpions, as it were.



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Three of the most significant revolutions in history were fuelled by ideology. The spirit of liberty drove the American Revolution. The colonies of the new world revolted against the taxation of the British monarchy. But this occurred within a larger conflict of values that pitted Protestantism, liberty and free enterprise against human absolutism. The former won in the end and thus was born the United States of America. The French revolution pitted the concept of secularism against the absolute imperialism of the French monarchy. The French people egged on by their philosophers and writers revolted against Louis XIV's declaration, "L' etat c'est moi" (I am the state). This paved way for the emergence of the strongly secularist modern France. The communists overthrew the Czars of imperial Russia during the Russian revolution leading to the birth of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

In all of these historic examples, we must note the primacy of ideas. These ideas were trumpeted in the mass media of the day, propounded relentlessly by philosophers and prophets in the circles of the arts, education, literature and even entertainment. The writings of Jefferson, Voltaire and Marx were among the literary influences on the three revolutions cited above. The steady stream of enlightenment created an awakening of the public, which continued until it reached a critical mass. When the idea's time came, it could not be resisted by the power structures of the time and so became manifest reality.

The question now is where is the idea that will breath life into the Nigerian revolution? Where is the ferment of ideological conflict that will lead to the rebirth of the Nigerian nation? The same poverty of thought that afflicts our political space has also emasculated people power. A revolution isn't a magic wand or a panacea. It is the deliberate and conscious effort of a people to change the course of their history. Gandhi gave us an insight into revolution when he said, " We must become the change we want to see." A popular revolution does not begin with the overthrow of the existing power structure; it ends with it. It actually begins with the individual, then the family, and then the community. The state is the final sphere to be affected by the social chain reaction that we call revolution. Plato recognized the centrality of the individual in the society when he said, "States are as men are; they grow out of human character." The Nigerian society and the state are products of the Nigerian character. To change the state, we must alter the Nigerian character. Michael Jackson crooned the same idea in his late eighties hit: "I am talking to the man in the mirror; I am asking him to change his ways." Christ said, "Remove the log in your eyes so that you can see more clearly to remove the speck in your neighbour's eye." We have to deal with our own individual flaws first and in so doing improve our perception of society's problems and our ability to solve them. It all must begin with the individual. History's greatest and most influential figures are those who became the change they wanted to see. Those who embodied their convictions have sparked off world changing revolutions.

The need for a moral rearmament or an ethical revolution has been widely recognized. Achieving a values reorientation is one of the pillars of the NEEDS (National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy) document. In my opinion, the fundamental idea behind a Nigerian revolution should be the adoption of a new paradigm that will place the people and not the government at the epicenter of social change. Nation building is largely a grass roots process and not a top-bottom engineering of the society. The Nigerian revolution will take place when public spiritedness and community values overthrow the self-centred individualism that denominates our sociopolitical life.

The infrastructural decay in our society can be remedied in many areas if citizens band together. Imagine for example, residents in any Lagos suburb, pooling their resources to tar their own roads or clear their own drains. Such an awakening of public spiritedness would altogether redefine state-society relations and emphasize the notion of democracy as government by, of and for the people. Another way of putting it is that where government isn't by and of the people, it cannot be for the people. If this sounds too simple, it is because the problem with Nigeria is not solely or even mainly the state. Nigerians need to be cured from an irresponsible and paralyzing over dependence on government and take responsibility for their own land. The refuse problem in Lagos has as much to do with the state government's inept waste disposal mechanism as it does the irresponsible sanitary habits of many Lagosians. The government certainly has to improve its waste management capacity but the people have a corresponding responsibility not to dump garbage on the roads or in the waterways.

There is also a moral dimension to the Nigerian revolution that we mustn't lose sight of. Historically religious institutions have played a role in revolutions sometimes finding themselves on either sides of the social divide. The puritan preaching of Jonathan Edwards, for instance, provided a spiritual and moral compass for the American Revolution while conversely for its complicity in imperial corruption, the church suffered secularism's backlash during the French revolution. Religious institutions provide the moral cement for nation building. Today, we need the reinjection of moral values into our society at all levels, the individual, the family, the community and then the state. What a faith- centered grass roots based values reorientation does is that it creates a moral climate that cannot sustain a corrupt power structure. Eventually that structure will either bend or break against the wind of an idea whose time has come.

The revolution we need isn't one of mindless violence but one that will replace tribalism, commercialization of conscience and selfish individualism with the ethos of individual and moral responsibility and community consciousness. Of course, anger has its uses. We should certainly be angry with ourselves for what we have allowed to happen to us and to our country. But we should also allow that anger fuel a determination to sculpt a better future with the clay of new ideas.

dailywealth1967: Which kind wayo activists b dis.Instead of 2 days,he for do indefinite hunger strike.

IDIOT!!!! WHICH SOLUTION YOU DON FIND FOR THE SITUATION, MAN DEY TRY HELP YOUR CAUSE YOU DEY CRITICIZE AM. IDIOT!!!

eGuerrilla: Sadly, the average Nigerian youth has become so politically emaciated and maginalized, that he no longer sees any cause worth fighting for.
This, to me, is the real tragedy here.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS ROTTEN STATE OF AFFAIRS, I'M NOT ABOUT TO GIVE UP BECAUSE THEY WON'T FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES, ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES YOU JUST HAVE TO BOW AND SHAKE YOUR HEAD, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE OR NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE AND CHANGE WE NEED, WHAT CAN WE DO, HOW CAN THE NIGERIAN BE SHOCKED OUT OF HIS SLEEP?

experience: NL is no place for things of this nature. Before going on, if you are genuinely interested, then we need to get other concerned/knowledgeable folks on this thread. We'll take it from there. . .

invite list:
cap28
ROSSIKE
cheikh
katsumoto
ola olabiy
ShangoThor

a few more should do. . .

ADD ME TO THIS LIST PLEASE, I'M SICK OF THIS ROTTEN SITUATION. CHANGE WE SHALL HAVE.

ShangoThor: The truth is that Africa does need a revolution, it has to be purged, the type of individuals that were involved in selling our Citizens to Alien cultures for Centuries still exist and they have to be wiped out. The enemies within have to be wiped out!

The strategy has now changed, the new phase of exploitation is to enslave the masses within the African continent and the Leaders and powerful
elite are being used to perpetrate the injustice, the same type of individuals that were involved in selling our Citizens to Alien cultures for Centuries
in the past.

The Chinese used to be in a similar position, until they took control of their resources and now are using a form of 'National Socialism' to develop and gradually improve the social conditions of their people, and at this rate, they will become the number one Super Power in no less than 20 years.

Even though I'm a capitalist by nature, one can't dispute these facts!

I AGREE YOU COMPLETELY BUT UNLESS WE CAN MAKE NIGERIAN YOUTHS SEE THAT THEY ARE SUFFERING, BECAUSE AS I HAVE DISCOVERED THEY DONOT SEE THIS, WE CANNOT HAVE A REVOLUTION. NIGERIA NEEDS TO BE PURGED AFRESH, CALL FOR A REVOLUTION NOW AND NO ONE WILL TURN UP, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ANGRY, NIGERIANS ARE TOO COWARDLY TO REVOLT AGAINST THIS CORRUPT GOVERNMENT PUPPETS OF THE WEST, IF WE NIGERIAN YOUTHS DO NOT TAKE IT BY FORCE NOTHING WILL CHANGE, NOTHING. WE NEED CHANGE, AND CHANGE WE SHALL HAVE, BUT WE MUST BE WILLING TO SACRIFICE FOR OUR MOTHERLAND.

NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE LAZY IGNORANT COWARDS, AND SLAVES OF RELIGION THAT IS CLEARLY DOING US MORE HARM THAN GOOD.

WHY ARE NIGERIAN YOUTHS SO DOCILE, WHY CAN'T WE HOLD OUR LEADERS RESPONSIBLE, THIS IS A CALL FOR REVOLUTION, I'M TIRED OF SITTING AT HOME FOR 3MONTHS ALL BECAUSE OF SOME OLD PEOPLE POLITICS, I'M TIRED OF SITTING IN THE DARK WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, I'M SICK OF NOT GETTING CLEAN WATER WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE THIS POSSIBLE IF THEY WANT TO, I'M TIRED OF NOT GETTING EFFICIENT HEALTH CARE WHEN THIS IS MY RIGHT. WHY CAN'T WE ASK THE GOVERNMENT WHAT THEY ARE DOING, WHY ARE WE WAITING FOR THEM TO MAKE UP THEIR MINDS TO HELP US, WHY WHY WHY, WE NEED A CHANGE, NIGERIA CANNOT GO ON THIS WAY, WE NEED A CHANGE AND CHANGE IS IN OUR HANDS...WAKE UP NIGERIAN, LET US HOLD OUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE!!!! REVOLUTION!!! GOD DAMN IT REVOLUTION!!!!

mccooler: Don't eat him up, I think he has a good intention. I would hv preferd he declares fasting rada dan hunger strike as I known 9ja govt no send struggle cos in my final year 2002/2003 section we had ASUU lasu strk (by prof abisogun leigh) for 6mnths n 2wks and upon resumption we had went on the general ASUU strk which lasted 6months. So I'll suggest he should go spiritual rada dan struggle. Except say him dey look 4 a10tion Don't eat him up, I think he has a good intention. I would hv preferd he declares fasting rada dan hunger strike as I known 9ja govt no send struggle cos in my final year 2002/2003 section we had ASUU lasu strk (by prof abisogun leigh) for 6mnths n 2wks and upon resumption we had went on the general ASUU strk which lasted 6months. So I'll suggest he should go spiritual rada dan struggle. Except say him dey look 4 a10tion

COWARD!!!!!! I QUESTION YOUR INTELLIGENCE FOR THAT SUGGESTION, LET'S PRAY TO GOD TO FREE US FROM OPPRESSORS WHEN WE CAN FIGHT FOR OURSELVES, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THE SAME AS, A GOAT TIED TO A TREE WITH A KNIFE IN HIS HAND PRAYING TO GOD TO CUT THE ROPE FOR HIM.

LOOK AT WHAT THIS MAN IS SAYING, DO YOU THINK THE GOVERNMENT CARES ABOUT YOUR SPIRITUAL STRUGGLES, NO ONE WILL LISTEN TO YOU, IF YOU KEEP PRAYING IN YOUR CHURCHES AND MOSQUES FOR THIS SELFISH LEADERS WHO HAVE THEIR KIDS ABROAD TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS ABOUT OPPRESSING YOU, IN WHAT PART OF THE WORLD HAVE YOU HEARD THAT PEOPLE FASTED IN CHURCHES AND THEIR SITUATION CHANGED. NIGERIAN YOUTHS NEED TO WAKE FROM THIS DOCILE STATE AND HOLD YOUR LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE.

Why are nigerian students so stupid, the man is working for the interest of you students, if ASUU and the federal government doesn't care, should we all sleep and let them treat us this way? why can't take a brave step and stop this injustice being done to our education, this is why nothing will ever change in nigeria, the youths are so docile and ignorant, i'm sorry to say but here's a man working for our interest and stupid on nairaland shooting him, shouldn't we encourage this man, who will come and fight for us if we don't fight for ourselves, shouldn't we encourage this man that is trying to aid students, if the government and ASUU don't care, shouldn't we make them care!!!!? NIGERIAN YOUTHS WAKE UP GOD DAMN IT!!!

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