What makes us such a prayerful, religious nation, yet the world’s Poverty Capital?
Please don’t say SIN. Agreed, there’s a peculiarity to the African brand of craziness, that you cannot find anywhere else. In fact, there’s a Nigerian type of “mad” that we just own. But sin is not racist. It’s not tribalistic. It is genderless, ageless. Everywhere else in the world, sin is deeply entrenched, widespread. In fact, sin is a definition of what one religion calls it or not. In the dictionary of faiths, sin has different spellings. It has been rebranded, redesigned, slim-fitted, force-fed, pumped up, trimmed down, refaced, reworded, fattened.
The point is, everywhere you go, there’s a semblance of morality, a definition of rights and wrongs, a system of law and order…and those who flout them.
Don’t also say “BLACKNESS”. There are black communities thriving all around us. Countries moving from greatness to glory, jumping in billions of dollars, enjoying economic explosions and prosperity.
Do we have terrible work ethics?
Is it something with our culture?
Can we somehow link it to bad leadership?
What makes us such a prayerful, religious nation, yet the world’s Poverty Capital?
Read some more of my writing here.
I couldn’t make up my mind in picking from one of those points you raised, not because they are not correct, but because they all seem to be it.
Anyways, i will sum up work ethics, culture, bad leadership (and bad followership) under what i termed ‘Afrojugation’.
Yes, i spelt it correctly.
It refers to the subjugation of Africans by Africans. We seek to subjugate one another for economic and political reasons to the detriment of national growth, nay, national development.
We pray, yet we remain poor. We are poor because we pray without action. Thus, we remain poor because we pray without action.
Our case defies logic right?
What should we do? Rise and create good followership (without which there is no good leadership) and work against afrojugation (or afrojugative tendencies).
Oh, i forgot! Pray along the way…