To hell with the danfo drivers among us
It is titled ‘The danfo driver in us all’. Reading the titular essay made me retrospect. Days after I finished reading this important book I chose to think about the good in us.
As you read this, many are glued to the new season of Big Brother Naija show, with companies falling over one another to sponsor it. Ask these companies to sponsor a research by Hallowed Olaoluwa, who is seen as Africa’s Albert Einstein, and all you will get are excuses. Olaoluwa earned First Class in Mathematics and Physics at 18 and had two Master’s degrees in Physics and Mathematics at 19. He earned his doctorate degree at 24.
Haters will pretend not to have heard of Ikenna Nweke, a Nigerian, who returned a missing wallet with foreign currency in Japan even when no one was watching him. Nweke, a doctorate student in a Japanese university, turned down the offer of compensation. He projected honesty, integrity and contentment, which the bulk of Nigerians represent. By now, he should have become a brand ambassador to serious firms.
There are millions of other Nigerians doing us proud all over the world. According to the Migrations Policy Institute, 29 per cent of Nigerian-Americans over the age of 25 hold a graduate degree, compared to 11 per cent of the overall U.S. population. A report by the American Community Survey shows that among Nigerian-American professionals, 45 per cent work in education services and many are professors at top universities. ImeIme A.
The music industry is another sector where Nigerians have built a beautiful edifice out of rubbles. After the Fela era, our musicians’ glow ebbed on the international stage, but now home-based Nigerians are playing big at the world stage. Davido and Wizkid are two of our stars who regularly show up on global billboards. They are also getting gold and platinum ratings.
While celebrating our goodness, we need to get our politics right. What we call politics at the moment is nothing but a joke. The Labour and the Conservative are the two political parties that have decided the fortunes of the United Kingdom from time immemorial. In the United States, the Republican and the Democrats dwarf other parties to swing the American pendulum whichever way they want. It is rare to hear that Conservative member defects to Labour or vice versa.
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