The best we can be is a better version of ourselves (Cooldipo, 2013). Colonization and slavery gave us westernized civilization, democracy and foreign religion in exchange; these have help keep the foothold of the former strong even years long after the abolition of slave trade. Nigeria has lost its consciousness to the free inflow of finished commodity and exportation of raw materials, availability of free and cheap money to the government from crude oil which in-turn has made the govt to depend less on tax and other sources of income and this has created a situation whereby the citizenry does not have the impetus to ask concrete questions outside their 'beer-palour' talk which are non-nonchalant at best. The 'who' we have become is not who we wanted to be but somewhere along the line we stopped following our own manual. When politicians share money, nobody goes out to the street celebrating but when next Okorobo Festival comes up, everybody rolls out their mortar and pestle to welcome the New Yam. The new yam is more about who we used to be; it means we put in our hard work the season round till the new yam comes forth, that is we ripped where we sowed unlike this steal-n-share, crude oil and federal allocation dependent quagmire we found ourselves. It is our culture to be upright and celebrate hard work and we should purge ourselves of the laziness that has been our bed mate in recent times.
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