Anyone who says there is democracy in Nigeria is comfy with lies. What I mean is this: that not only the leaders are against democracy brimming into the country, the citizens are obstacles and this is wholly my opinion, because amidst Nigerians, no one tends to accept each other, either one is being ridiculed for the way he dresses or the way he talks, or anything partly cloned within his cascades.

I have learnt somethings I didn't know from my fellow Nigerians before I traveled (to gather more ideas and become open-minded) and this has a large connection with the way we see ourselves, which is really, really brewing hatred and close-mindedness (like coffee!) in the midst of the Nigerian youths, who on a daily basis want to join the league of people who are 'exposed', exposed in a way that they tend to cloth themselves in Western idea, although I do not go against such things. I go against things like not having the urge to allow others to live the way they wish to live, which is why our youths land in hell.

Alright, a 19 year-old Nigerian (my age mate for that matter!) was recently hanged to death in Singapore for drug-peddling and this can only be summed up as peer pressure. He might have seen his age mates riding in Hummer jeeps, and then, he was seduced to do what they did and survive. Not many survive from the scars of others. You can't have the same hair-cut with Wole Soyinka, because his hair is not coconut-shaped like yours.

There is a tag for people who don't have girlfriends in Nigeria and that is 'Jew Men'. Or polemicists, who do not agree with the ideas of others, maybe tend to find their path. Well, the Jews might see this as Anti-Semitic, but Nigerians wouldn't care a fig. Now, if you happen to have no girl friend, you are certainly gay and being gay in a Nigerian society isn't an easy task, as I learnt from Jude Dibia's Walking with Shadows. But like Adrian, it could simply be put up this way, that some men could be hiding behind some women, as to hide their sexuality. Then, if you effeminate in Nigeria, you are surely gay. Nothing would be added to that.

Why are Nigerians all that close-minded about the way people live their lives, and not only that, the lower class in this society are subjected to irresistible intimidation, because the high close flaunt their riches all the way their face.

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# 1 Anyone who says there is democracy in Nigeria is comfy with lies. What I mean is this: that not o...Read the full article. Posted by Robot| 15.02.2007 14:13