On Nigeria's Bakassi

It’s funny how we have failed to shake off the shackles of slavery. Sometimes I worry that we revel in it. Well, if you say we don’t, why then did Nigeria cede Bakassi to Cameroon? Good question. Nigeria did because the international tribunal asked it to do so on the basis that the Germans and English had divided the lands accordingly some decades ago.

How many Germans or English men have been to Bakassi since they “Divided” the land so? How foolish. A good portion of our struggles in Africa stem from the fact that different people are strewn together, again, almighty thanks to the colonial powers who found it in their greedy interests to do so. Now, a place established as Nigeria, with Nigerians actively living in place for decades is suddenly Cameroon.

When will we rise up and think and speak for our own self oh Africa? If Bakassi was a desert land there will be no arguments over it, because it has wealth, Germany and England rule over us again like they have done in times past when they harvested our resources, harvested our wealth and our people and shipped it across the Atlantic.

What is funny is that I hold no fight against anyone who does not consider himself African. It is the Africans who are responsible for their fate, because we create our own destiny. Bakassi belonged to Nigerians, no one, not even the International courts of the West should dispute that. The handful of African nations that are established should be let alone. We are no longer slaves like cattle, but maybe one day when we realize it we will stretch from our stoop and join the rest of the human race.