By Esethu Hasane
Africa’s much touted giant; Nigeria is ironically the gold standard of spectacular failure. A country so broken it exports beggars, scammers, and thieves instead of talent, then has the audacity to be arrogant about it.
Africa’s most populous country, sitting on significant wealth, yet a single international airport that can’t keep the lights on. Citizens who can’t access basic government services without bribing their way through. And cash dirty, torn, ancient notes worth nothing in international currency, an embarrassment still somehow in circulation. In short: a failed state and a failed people who have fully accepted it.
A president who can’t stay awake OR stay in his own country for more than a few months without flying abroad for medical treatment because the healthcare system he presides over is too broken to treat him.
Regions run by religious zealots because Nigerians keep voting for uselessness, proving they’ve quietly accepted what the rest of the world already knows: it’s a failed state and and its people , have accepted collective failure unable to even vote themselves out of failed leaderships. Decades of such catastrophic leadership so embarrassing it turned an entire nation into the world’s most notorious hustle, and somehow, they still have the nerve to resent anyone who calls it out.
Fix your country before you fix your attitude.
