Ignorance Is No Bliss by Charly Boy

Article written by Charly Boy. Read below.....
Oh God! Why was I born in this neck of the
woods? See how low my country has sank,
demeaning our value as human beings,
destroying our image as greed and corruption
destroys everything we hold sacred. See how it
drives the youths crazily into the uncertain life
of crime, dispossessing the creative and
talented youths of their dreams and
discrediting their imagination. Haba, God,
why? As Nigerians, what are we really good
for? Were we born to be haunted and
taunted?"
I don't know what drives us but were we created
to be a sub. Like you
create two versions of something and see which
one would thrive more
in the habitat it would be placed. It seems the
Africans (Nigerians)
are failing the test and soon would be wiped out
from existence. Why
have we remained a consumer nation, can't even
produce nothing, even
the few who can are not encouraged.
We are so backward it troubles me. Even if the
western world were to
wait for us for another hundred years, at this rate
we will likely not
meet up. Because as a people and as a nation, we
lack focus, we are so
consumed by greed that all we know how to do is
compete among
ourselves in this endless corruption that we fail to
see the bigger
picture.
We are obviously operating a failed political
system, educational
system and whatever comes to mind. A country
where literates are so
myopic and shallow minded. We are still living in
the era of people
believing more in witches and wizard and do not
believe in working
towards a bright future. A kill and go system that
does not really
care for its people. From our so called riffraff in
leadership, we are
told to be patient and always pray for good luck.
Can our country
really be run by good luck?
We are so myopic that when we are confronted
with one problem we talk
about it until another problem arises; we forget
the old unsolved one
and begin to rant about the new problem. It was
"bring back our
girls", now is Ebola here Ebola there. Even people
with PHD were
bathing with salt water, Maggi and pepper. Lol
What is so bad is that we claim to have produced
both academic and
medical doctors and yet we can't possibly find
any solution to this
bloody virus. We are begging the United States for
the unapproved
serum which will not be given until 2015. We
have labs that can't
carry out experiments because the labs don't
have the required to
function well. Are our doctors even capable? On
the media you hear
different stories of what's going on while we are
shielded from the
truth.
We refuse to develop ourselves so we live at the
mercy of others. We
claim we are the giant of Africa but there is little
or nothing we can
do for other smaller African countries. How can
we, when we have not
been able to do anything for ourselves.
We always think our ignorance is an excuse to the
way we live and what
happens to us, is it actually ignorance or
stupidity? Our ignorance
will not deliver us and it is no excuse to whatever
happens to us.
Are we not supposed to be responsible for
ourselves? Are we going to
keep depending on other nations for our security
and safety?
Where is our pride as a people and as
individuals? We get mouth but we
no get anything. People weh get mouth na people
weh get evidence of
substance. Sometimes you don't have to speak,
what you have created
speaks for you.
Until we realize that our problems are beyond
rants, curses and
prayers, then can we be a step towards finding a
solution.
Except we want to be proved as a failed state/race
would we remain in
this pathetic state of existence. I'm sure I'm not
the only one who
knows that in Africa we are just existing and not
living. The world
has since evolved. Abegi.