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“Happy Workers Day? How happy is the worker whose lot is no different from the slave's?”
I went to primary schools with the children of my neighbours. It was the post code lottery to gain admission into the primary school, and you generally went to the school closest to your house. I was not any exception. St’ Stephen’s Primary School, Inalende, was across the road from my childhood home, and that was where I was posted.
I couldn’t have been more than 4-5 years old when it happened. But I have never lost the memory of my first health crisis. I had some sort of fever, most likely malaria, and I had to be admitted into the University College Hospital, UCH in Ibadan. I still remember the beautiful well turned out nurses with their dainty white caps, and the sparkling whiteness of their uniforms. I remember the fluorescent lights in the immaculate ward, and I remember Maami watching over me.
The most damning evidences of the feudalisation of Nigeria, are to be found in the increasing stratification of Nigerians along class lines, the pauperisation of the middle class, their resultant focus on existential pursuits, and the mass weaponization of ignorance on the general populace in order to assure their impoverishment, and thereby guarantee their docility. The slave begins his walk to freedom, the day he realized the truth of his enslavement.
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