More Fear and More Fear Leads To The Death of All Fears.
More Fear and More Fear Leads To The Death of All Fears.
Ekoja Jesse
Aug 1, 2018
Beware of people who claim to fully understand all of our problems, fools they are and among fools only can they stand out.
Only a retard can fail a question that asks for a list of Nigeria's challenges. I have lived a life tormented by various versions of our problems.
Some yank all day about a problem they caused, others feel better if they heap the blames on European colonial Lords, some because they can't gain a dime anymore, turn against a principle they so much believed in till it all turned sour in their mouths. Some other ones, the last group, are so stupid all they do is support and applaud mediocre governments. Whatever they do that for?
I observe and observe just fine, doing the listening in most personal discourse. Years passed.
Funny as it may sound, when you hear people listing Nigeria's challenges, they do so with more patriotism than they ever did singing the national anthem.
Whoever sings the national anthem willingly these days?
Our teachers are religiously drunk half the time they are teaching our children what to say before killing a fellow Nigerian, for having a different Religious Belief.
Could that be why no youth wants to ever become a teacher? Cuz they are all sadists? Agreed, they are the least paid public servants, but been teachers, bias in whatever form becomes a taboo, this is not so over here.
They formed a coalition and took our history off the shelves. History makes us fighters, religion makes us docile.
I wonder what we learn in school if the only profession the average Nigerian youth aspires for are the white collar jobs.
I am yet to meet a young Nigerian my age that wanted to become a teacher in the first place. Ordinary teacher? Common teacher? No. Not ever.
The parents too'd be like, over my dead body will my son become a teacher.
Nollywood should be Nigeria's name.
The flat line amongst kids are; when I grow up I want to be a Medical Doctor, an Engineer or a pilot. Our education paints this picture of less smart (not intelligent, take not) kids be condemned to read the arts. A group of these condemns, went on to be recognized at international heights with international awards to back it up. Although some were lucky (Wole) and some Gutsiest than been merely gifted (Chinua "The Sage" Achebe).
I want to illustrate a point here, these guys, they had a system working for them. While it was now their turn to provide for us a similar system, Wole took sides and Achebe, stuck with the style of ancient prophets, he wrote, piece after piece, book after book, rejected national awards that were against his Principles. God bless that soul.
Wole, What will Wole do? He tags along with other confused Nigerians, took away a system that was trying it's best to work for us as youths. We had Chimamanda Adichie to illustrate this. We had Philip Emegwali, we had Frank Nweke Junior.
Sometimes, we as youths should take some chiding for been lazy and relying on a system that was never there. We are damn right lazy, our poets, writers, actors and entrepreneurs, those in the civil service Have been bought up with a salary that can't last them through a day's meal.
This is no disrespect to a dozen of our internationally recognized but yet to be awarded creative writers. The ones with steel balls, who said Fuck the system, Who struggled on and say "who needs a system anyway?" They have over time, maybe from the sanity attainable in creativity, have outlined various ways forward to ensure societal justice. Three of them, I call them "Super Poets" have made a mark for themselves and in a good system, they ought to be travelling the world and making us proud. They are worthy of note:
Emmanuel A. Anzaku
Chidi Nwosu
Jamiu Ahmed
These three have added more bricks to nation building than all of our politicians ever did since 1960.
I met Anzaku in school, cool cat. Never knew he was as creative Way back in school. His work was always pasted on notice boards, and guess what? He never majored in literature.
This amazing dude is as quiet as they come or was he shy? Nope. Shy is the least of his concerns when he writes. Plays with words, fuses cultures, describes scenes you'd think it's a Deja Vu.
He wrote a poem a day for 365 days and this talent went unnoticed to the government, if he was a Hailer or an enemy, he would have gained their attention?
He did this without a system to inspire him on, he didn't stop regardless. What else is spirit and determination?.
Chidi Nwosu, great guy, never met him but know he's a man of few words but heavy letters. Suave, Calm, thoughtful.
For every line I ever read, I could relate to the state of the nation. Guy is massive, networks with poets from around the globe.
The globe noticed, but his country didn't. I'm not sure I can forgive that, but on he pushes, Fuck the system, he does his thing.
Jamiu Ahmed. This guy's angle of poetry seeks to balance creative mindsets and national development. I think he is that lost but found picture of yesteryears Arewa youth. He and his species need to work more to enlighten Arewa and bring them back on track.
I know a lot of poets who were equally good but died waiting on a system that will work only for The high and mighty. This wait filters chaff creativity from the main sauce, this shouldn't be too hard to understand.
Only a fool will claim they can save 180 million people solo riding. I laugh. The tales has always been I love Nigeria and only I can make her great again. How? A tree cannot protect a forest alone, but a tree can contaminate a forest alone. How can you save 180 million people without a master plan?
This intellectual thingy can be likened to a craving for the truth. So that when lied to, the mind is offset, feels undermined and that familiar uncensored speech lashing is activated.
Look at it this way, Ortom in APC is a saint, next day he decamps, same Ortom is a theif. Yea, a theif like Saint Bello of Kogi, with equal sins, but the broom sweeps unclean.
This is where woke interplay with intellectuality.
Woke! Woke!! Woke!!!
What then is woke?
Woke, is simply the ability to recognize and recover from all forms of intellectual disrespect.
Crazy meaning right? Well so is Aty's longer name but guess what? I ain't telling.
Aty Ejepu is woke,
"the walk the talk guy",
"the I can't wait on the stupid system guy".
He is a focused and very serious minded youth. He knows that the system is a myth, and might remain so until we will work collectively to put a new system in place.
One void of fairy tales. He's doing his quota from his Blog, Aty's Blog. Check him out. Aty has shown that complainers are dead like the system they continue to complain about.
First you must admit that the system is a myth, Stop complaining about this myth system, Challenge The problems and Churn out solutions.
These solutions can be in the way we eat, the way we relate, the way we greet and even the way we die. You pray for One Nigeria yet you thinking of your belly. That's where to start.
Next Is the highly respected Abel Benyhwh The indefatigable crusader, that won't suffer fools just for the heck of it. I have never read a biased comment from Mr Ben. Civil in his thinking, always has a lesson or two to teach, and happily. I like to engage his thoughts, lots of respect I have for him. He doesn't even believe there will ever be a system as long as guys like Atiku and Buhari keep Coming back for more. His ideas I fear, supersedes woke and he's down with a course that's not against his principles. What we lack in our representatives.
He is a qualified @NIGERIATORS, I'd tell you guys about NIGERIATORS some other time.
Now,
This is the diss with any youth who just grew pubic hair and without knowing the use of a system goes shouting fight for freedom and all he has is his knife that can only slaughter a chicken, something he's even yet to achieve. At least he has a spirit, Lil homie spirit. But pause.
The best wines are reserved for last, about taste, I am yet to meet his slay queen, lol. Exemplary 21st century Nigerian youth.
Itz OJukwu, Very Bright political prospect, he combines creativity, how he does that, I don't know. He is a poet, a potential columnist, he's crazy, he's humble. He has a lot up his sleeves and dies to put them in use for the greater good. He is ready at all times.
He's standing for President in the political science department of his school, my Alma mater.
He Has this spirit to lead and am sure can work without supervision. He has fire in his brazen balls. He made a post a while ago, I didn't know how to place it, I think it exposed dynamism, the post was about him not criticizing because he too is not perfect, it looked like a poem, it looked like a diary penning, it looked like everything. I think the post was betraying Ojukwu's civil way of life, an example of the meekness missing in every single leader Africa has ever produced. He won't fight you, never. It's rare in these hobesian times. I greet you.
Unfortunately, unlike itz Ojukwu who is driven by creating a system on which young and able youths can first establish believe in themselves, and use their passion and talent to alleviate societal ills.
These guys, probably misinformed youths out here just hop on social media screaming revolution songs without the heart to kill a fly, have never seen a war, can't watch a fight in silence, will come out on here and make it look like it fighting a government is like 90 against one, to get an ass whooping?
This is that hobesian life, in a time when the hero is not the one that died, but the one that tells the story. Dead soldiers can't shoot guns Lil homie.
Do you know nasty? Lil homie, Can you watch your sister raped? by beasts? Your father killed by your hands? These guys operate even nastier. Backed by the unfortunate Fulani oligarchy, the richest oil marketers and gun transacting people in the world. They are never captured on any data base, they are ghosts.
We are stronger but they have logistics.
The guy bought 12 Tucanos, not for Saraki, Ortom or Darius, neither is it for Atiku or Melaye, EFCC can handle those. These Tucanos are for you and I, Odimegwu signed the peace deal, that was after unfortunate me and you were killed, no bullet ever fired at him.
Can you name 5 biafra soldiers? That died in the war? The ones that returned, what is their condition today? Can the Arewa youth list 5 soldiers that fought the war that helped them from loosing access to oil wells?
Today Boko Haram kills a group of loyal soldiers and the best they ever get is a mass burial, if bodies are ever found.
When you say fight, Lil homie, who exactly do you want to fight? Where do you start from, when an ordinary bingo made you change the route to your house?
It is stupid to die when you have not explored other alternatives.
This battle gets to be won only by intellectual strength and media domination, Mark Zuckerberg brought the world to his app, he created a system, a system that has reduced violence on Journalists across the globe, and he didn't even need to use a bullet. We slay on facebook, others somewhere transact millions and still secure their territories on facebook, who is smarter?
You just wake up one morning, and yell struggle, fight. If we all die, who writes the history. Who learns this history?
Or you think the problem is because those before us didn't fight? Enough? Let us use our senses here, at least until the 2019 elections are rigged against our mandates, then even the world will support the anarchy that shall grab Nigeria.
Let us unify, intellectually, fight tyranny like gentlemen first, to take this path is to be bold enough to tell your children the youth in your day tried to save the trap called Nigeria but the oligarchy wanted otherwise.
If we must die let us die with the ballots and not in our sleep.
Youths WE FIT
Ekoja Jesse
Aug 1, 2018
Beware of people who claim to fully understand all of our problems, fools they are and among fools only can they stand out.
Only a retard can fail a question that asks for a list of Nigeria's challenges. I have lived a life tormented by various versions of our problems.
Some yank all day about a problem they caused, others feel better if they heap the blames on European colonial Lords, some because they can't gain a dime anymore, turn against a principle they so much believed in till it all turned sour in their mouths. Some other ones, the last group, are so stupid all they do is support and applaud mediocre governments. Whatever they do that for?
I observe and observe just fine, doing the listening in most personal discourse. Years passed.
Funny as it may sound, when you hear people listing Nigeria's challenges, they do so with more patriotism than they ever did singing the national anthem.
Whoever sings the national anthem willingly these days?
Our teachers are religiously drunk half the time they are teaching our children what to say before killing a fellow Nigerian, for having a different Religious Belief.
Could that be why no youth wants to ever become a teacher? Cuz they are all sadists? Agreed, they are the least paid public servants, but been teachers, bias in whatever form becomes a taboo, this is not so over here.
They formed a coalition and took our history off the shelves. History makes us fighters, religion makes us docile.
I wonder what we learn in school if the only profession the average Nigerian youth aspires for are the white collar jobs.
I am yet to meet a young Nigerian my age that wanted to become a teacher in the first place. Ordinary teacher? Common teacher? No. Not ever.
The parents too'd be like, over my dead body will my son become a teacher.
Nollywood should be Nigeria's name.
The flat line amongst kids are; when I grow up I want to be a Medical Doctor, an Engineer or a pilot. Our education paints this picture of less smart (not intelligent, take not) kids be condemned to read the arts. A group of these condemns, went on to be recognized at international heights with international awards to back it up. Although some were lucky (Wole) and some Gutsiest than been merely gifted (Chinua "The Sage" Achebe).
I want to illustrate a point here, these guys, they had a system working for them. While it was now their turn to provide for us a similar system, Wole took sides and Achebe, stuck with the style of ancient prophets, he wrote, piece after piece, book after book, rejected national awards that were against his Principles. God bless that soul.
Wole, What will Wole do? He tags along with other confused Nigerians, took away a system that was trying it's best to work for us as youths. We had Chimamanda Adichie to illustrate this. We had Philip Emegwali, we had Frank Nweke Junior.
Sometimes, we as youths should take some chiding for been lazy and relying on a system that was never there. We are damn right lazy, our poets, writers, actors and entrepreneurs, those in the civil service Have been bought up with a salary that can't last them through a day's meal.
This is no disrespect to a dozen of our internationally recognized but yet to be awarded creative writers. The ones with steel balls, who said Fuck the system, Who struggled on and say "who needs a system anyway?" They have over time, maybe from the sanity attainable in creativity, have outlined various ways forward to ensure societal justice. Three of them, I call them "Super Poets" have made a mark for themselves and in a good system, they ought to be travelling the world and making us proud. They are worthy of note:
Emmanuel A. Anzaku
Chidi Nwosu
Jamiu Ahmed
These three have added more bricks to nation building than all of our politicians ever did since 1960.
I met Anzaku in school, cool cat. Never knew he was as creative Way back in school. His work was always pasted on notice boards, and guess what? He never majored in literature.
This amazing dude is as quiet as they come or was he shy? Nope. Shy is the least of his concerns when he writes. Plays with words, fuses cultures, describes scenes you'd think it's a Deja Vu.
He wrote a poem a day for 365 days and this talent went unnoticed to the government, if he was a Hailer or an enemy, he would have gained their attention?
He did this without a system to inspire him on, he didn't stop regardless. What else is spirit and determination?.
Chidi Nwosu, great guy, never met him but know he's a man of few words but heavy letters. Suave, Calm, thoughtful.
For every line I ever read, I could relate to the state of the nation. Guy is massive, networks with poets from around the globe.
The globe noticed, but his country didn't. I'm not sure I can forgive that, but on he pushes, Fuck the system, he does his thing.
Jamiu Ahmed. This guy's angle of poetry seeks to balance creative mindsets and national development. I think he is that lost but found picture of yesteryears Arewa youth. He and his species need to work more to enlighten Arewa and bring them back on track.
I know a lot of poets who were equally good but died waiting on a system that will work only for The high and mighty. This wait filters chaff creativity from the main sauce, this shouldn't be too hard to understand.
Only a fool will claim they can save 180 million people solo riding. I laugh. The tales has always been I love Nigeria and only I can make her great again. How? A tree cannot protect a forest alone, but a tree can contaminate a forest alone. How can you save 180 million people without a master plan?
This intellectual thingy can be likened to a craving for the truth. So that when lied to, the mind is offset, feels undermined and that familiar uncensored speech lashing is activated.
Look at it this way, Ortom in APC is a saint, next day he decamps, same Ortom is a theif. Yea, a theif like Saint Bello of Kogi, with equal sins, but the broom sweeps unclean.
This is where woke interplay with intellectuality.
Woke! Woke!! Woke!!!
What then is woke?
Woke, is simply the ability to recognize and recover from all forms of intellectual disrespect.
Crazy meaning right? Well so is Aty's longer name but guess what? I ain't telling.
Aty Ejepu is woke,
"the walk the talk guy",
"the I can't wait on the stupid system guy".
He is a focused and very serious minded youth. He knows that the system is a myth, and might remain so until we will work collectively to put a new system in place.
One void of fairy tales. He's doing his quota from his Blog, Aty's Blog. Check him out. Aty has shown that complainers are dead like the system they continue to complain about.
First you must admit that the system is a myth, Stop complaining about this myth system, Challenge The problems and Churn out solutions.
These solutions can be in the way we eat, the way we relate, the way we greet and even the way we die. You pray for One Nigeria yet you thinking of your belly. That's where to start.
Next Is the highly respected Abel Benyhwh The indefatigable crusader, that won't suffer fools just for the heck of it. I have never read a biased comment from Mr Ben. Civil in his thinking, always has a lesson or two to teach, and happily. I like to engage his thoughts, lots of respect I have for him. He doesn't even believe there will ever be a system as long as guys like Atiku and Buhari keep Coming back for more. His ideas I fear, supersedes woke and he's down with a course that's not against his principles. What we lack in our representatives.
He is a qualified @NIGERIATORS, I'd tell you guys about NIGERIATORS some other time.
Now,
This is the diss with any youth who just grew pubic hair and without knowing the use of a system goes shouting fight for freedom and all he has is his knife that can only slaughter a chicken, something he's even yet to achieve. At least he has a spirit, Lil homie spirit. But pause.
The best wines are reserved for last, about taste, I am yet to meet his slay queen, lol. Exemplary 21st century Nigerian youth.
Itz OJukwu, Very Bright political prospect, he combines creativity, how he does that, I don't know. He is a poet, a potential columnist, he's crazy, he's humble. He has a lot up his sleeves and dies to put them in use for the greater good. He is ready at all times.
He's standing for President in the political science department of his school, my Alma mater.
He Has this spirit to lead and am sure can work without supervision. He has fire in his brazen balls. He made a post a while ago, I didn't know how to place it, I think it exposed dynamism, the post was about him not criticizing because he too is not perfect, it looked like a poem, it looked like a diary penning, it looked like everything. I think the post was betraying Ojukwu's civil way of life, an example of the meekness missing in every single leader Africa has ever produced. He won't fight you, never. It's rare in these hobesian times. I greet you.
Unfortunately, unlike itz Ojukwu who is driven by creating a system on which young and able youths can first establish believe in themselves, and use their passion and talent to alleviate societal ills.
These guys, probably misinformed youths out here just hop on social media screaming revolution songs without the heart to kill a fly, have never seen a war, can't watch a fight in silence, will come out on here and make it look like it fighting a government is like 90 against one, to get an ass whooping?
This is that hobesian life, in a time when the hero is not the one that died, but the one that tells the story. Dead soldiers can't shoot guns Lil homie.
Do you know nasty? Lil homie, Can you watch your sister raped? by beasts? Your father killed by your hands? These guys operate even nastier. Backed by the unfortunate Fulani oligarchy, the richest oil marketers and gun transacting people in the world. They are never captured on any data base, they are ghosts.
We are stronger but they have logistics.
The guy bought 12 Tucanos, not for Saraki, Ortom or Darius, neither is it for Atiku or Melaye, EFCC can handle those. These Tucanos are for you and I, Odimegwu signed the peace deal, that was after unfortunate me and you were killed, no bullet ever fired at him.
Can you name 5 biafra soldiers? That died in the war? The ones that returned, what is their condition today? Can the Arewa youth list 5 soldiers that fought the war that helped them from loosing access to oil wells?
Today Boko Haram kills a group of loyal soldiers and the best they ever get is a mass burial, if bodies are ever found.
When you say fight, Lil homie, who exactly do you want to fight? Where do you start from, when an ordinary bingo made you change the route to your house?
It is stupid to die when you have not explored other alternatives.
This battle gets to be won only by intellectual strength and media domination, Mark Zuckerberg brought the world to his app, he created a system, a system that has reduced violence on Journalists across the globe, and he didn't even need to use a bullet. We slay on facebook, others somewhere transact millions and still secure their territories on facebook, who is smarter?
You just wake up one morning, and yell struggle, fight. If we all die, who writes the history. Who learns this history?
Or you think the problem is because those before us didn't fight? Enough? Let us use our senses here, at least until the 2019 elections are rigged against our mandates, then even the world will support the anarchy that shall grab Nigeria.
Let us unify, intellectually, fight tyranny like gentlemen first, to take this path is to be bold enough to tell your children the youth in your day tried to save the trap called Nigeria but the oligarchy wanted otherwise.
If we must die let us die with the ballots and not in our sleep.
Youths WE FIT
Great Piece! Ekoja Jesse. This article is a statement of huge consequence, substance and significance. #YouthsWeFit
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