We’re gradually losing ourselves yet content. Very few are voicing the turmoil we’re facing, or are we all secretly waiting for the inevitable to achieve a silent agenda?.
We’ve embraced death reports like another wedding announcement. Our life’s worth a fly’s because it can be smashed any moment and we’re content with it.
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Do we still have empathy towards those paying ransom for their kids, that lost homes, families, and lives to terrorist attacks, massacres by bandits and God knows who?
Yet, we’re not agitating for a security revolution, together with leadership. Perhaps it’s the resignation towards hope that the country might not be saved because no one is inclined to fight for our so-called ‘beloved country’.
There should be a demand for the ban on National Anthem recitations in schools or The pledge, no Independence day celebration until we can shout in good spirit ‘my fatherland’ again, what are we even celebrating? Terror?
In schools, we’re taught that Sovereignty is one of the major attributes of a nation, but Nigeria is on the brink of an earthquake from internal forces.
Do we even still have nationalists that want to do right by our country? Our youths are in illusion led to yearning for foreign countries’ identities against theirs, it’s like picking a child and allowing yours to sink in the mud. We’re slowly losing our identity and content with it.
Why?
Hafsat Muhammad Yola
Is a level 400 student in the Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Communication, Bayero University, Kano
