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Why Nigeria’s Independence Day Will Always Be a Day of Mourning
Exactly 61 years ago on October 1st 1960, Nigeria officially became “independent” from the polarizing grasp of its colonial masters. They had arrived decades ago with nefarious agendas, stealthily clad under the verses of the Holy Bible that was wielded to shame the primal instincts of a Black super power.
I have written extensively about the colonial exploits of white British invaders, who weaponized white evangelism in an effort to desecrate the ancestral traditions of stoic Black natives, who were bamboozled and subsequently destroyed by the scamming of God’s chosen people.
We were meant to believe that the white man was called upon by the heavens to enlighten and tame the brutishness of beasts in the wilderness.
Moving back to Lagos, Nigeria at the impressionable age of eight, during what would turn out to be the gangster era of back-to-back bloody military coups and a nonstop season of lawlessness, I was immediately transported to the sprawling relic of British colonial footprints that were meant to survive, as the tangible reminder of what white power had wrought.
From Lugard Avenue in Ikoyi to the premier girls’ secondary school — Queen’s College, Yaba, that boasts a roster of white women missionaries who laid down the foundational core that would raise…
