₦airaland Forum

Life is an enigma , Life is unpredictable and unstable as the wind , Life don't always turn out the way we plan it so we just go on with it .
Man make's life life much more complicated and difficult than it should be , Should we blame man? No because the human nature is insatiable so I guess we should not blame the greedy . One question always on my mind is that can someone be greedy but selfless at the same time ? Let's think deeply about life and get answers because I am confused and lost .
"All men are born equal" has to be the biggest lie ever told to man kind and the second is that the when the whites ( Caucasians) left Africa it gave Africans the sole power to control its resources I could be wrong but I would like someone to prove me wrong with facts please like I said I am confused . I am a Nigerian and I know how it feels to be brutally exploited without repercussions , I can say the whites/Caucasians are still exploiting we blacks till date, Racists claim that an average white man is more intelligent than the black man I mean it has be proven otherwise or are they right ?
How can we blacks be better ? How can we grow as a continent ? How can we set our own rules ,our own currencies on our own terms and conditions with the interference of the so called superior race with we Africans setting the pace ? I can only dream but dreams are the the bedrock of progress . Would this happen in my life time I doubt that because an average african knows absolutely nothing about his/her history and our educational system has been compromised from the very beginning by the whites who were the ones to set the template for our education it is so sad to think that we learnt that a white man was the one who found the river Niger I mean common .
Some would say this write up only focused on the negatives and turning a blind eye to the positives , I might be wrong but I said I was confused and needed answers so please don't blame me . Yes the colonial masters brought things too like books , clothes , religion , electricity ,education,development , a better life , sports apart from wrestling , medicines , hospital ,democracy and so on , Good for us blacks but we know nobody gives you anything for free and no nation is a friend of another without them gaining anything from the other and they sowed a seed on the continent and until the root of the tree is uprooted we can't move forward and that is discrimination .
So what did the whites take ? Freedom I mean I am moving freely , our pride ?our free thinking , our history , our natural resources , our best brains , our history ? I can go on but it isn't solely their fault is it ? . A scientists said in the battle of survival the strong prey on the weak and until we know who we truly are as a people we are not getting our continent back from the hands of the colonial masters .
This is my second write up the first was about Lagos , so please I am open to any form of criticism and corrections have a nice read

Eko the place where dreams are made or shattered , the city that never sleeps ,made up of the affluent , the middle class and the poor (mainly the later) hoping that one day their stories are going to change for the better(we hope so) , crime is everywhere ,crime happens with reckless abandon and doing the right thing is seen as being stupid ,it hurts because things are not going to get better ,I know that and you know that too but we keep striving everyday ,the hustle never stops and the traffic kills always on the road 24/7 , trying to get that bread , trying to cross that really big barrier from penury to wealth ,let's face the fact not everyone is going to be rich ,so we try every means possible we lie , we cheat , we steal and when don't get caught you are smart , you are the man , but when the opposite happens you are a thief , a lowlife , a good for nothing . No hard feelings it is Lagos "the land of opportunities " the place for the wise "it happens every day . HOPE the only word keeping this place together , and you can find hope anywhere , some find it in EDUCATION while some find it in RELIGION ,others find it in our MUSIC but no one finds hope in our History as a people , some people find refuge in the GOVERNMENT but I don't and I never will . Lagos a city with life,the city with a thousand languages , the land of entertainment ,a land of laughter, land of happiness , a land of riches and glory
My name is ASIWAJU and I am " MADE IN LAGOS "
PLEASE NOTE : this is my first piece and I would welcome any criticism