The Generation That Refuses To Ask Why.....

"But now we have acquired our rightful status, and I feel sure that history will show that the building of our nation proceeded at the wisest pace: it has been thorough, and Nigeria now stands well- built upon firm foundations." Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's speech delivered at Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos at the Independence Ceremony 1st October 1960.

The import of these words from the man -who would lose his life five years and three months later-who spoke those gallant words cannot but underscore how enraptured the pre-independence generation were at the birthing of a new country. A country of unique diversity and yet with a deliberately overlooked oneness, such as you would notice amongst siblings sired from different wombs.

The words being spoken now in the same country make for a plethora of questions as to the true sturdiness of the foundations Sir Abubakar alluded to in that October 1^st 1960 speech of his. I dare say, that just as one generation was obsessed with the ideas of building a nation fortified by it’s unique strength in adversity in face of  a rising morning sun that was the emerging Africa of the 1960s another generations finds itself in a cocoon of misdirected energy with an ethereal proclivity for self-destruction.