90%+ of Nigerians have absolutely no clue what a white person is, what a white person likes to drink, what a white person washes their hair with, what a white person likes to read, how a white person looks at you when they want to make you feel unwelcome, how a white person walks, how a white person smiles at you because you're black and don't know anything, how a white person turns yellow when they bruise, what it feels like to be asked very condescendingly and cruelly "what?" when talking to a white person because of your accent when you were first in your English class back in Nigeria, what blushing is, what 'medium rare' really means.
They don't know white people, so in such an instance, the imagination is left to go climbing Zuma Rock because we obviously have to fill that void with information, something to gives us at least some meaning. We have very basic information of what a whiteness is in Nigeria. Nigeria is a country that's very fleeting and ungrounded. There's no sense of history, there's no respect for history, unless it somehow relates to politics and ethnocentrism, and ethnocentrism in the sense of remembering whose village owned which part of what stream, not ethnocentrism in the sense of understanding how one group came to be destitute and another prosperous or any other deep reflection (in most cases). This fleeting attitude means that things happened 20 years ago are blurry already, and events of the 40s? Nah. To tie this quickly to the point, Nigerians only know very roughly that whiteness is as a source of the creation of Nigeria, and with the psychological power of English language Western education, the power of whiteness is emphasised in our minds along with visual evidence of infrastructure/technology that sprung up in what we believe is in relation with rule by whiteness. All this means that we hear Nigerians call technological marvels 'beke' and say things like 'before civilisation' to refer to the time before British colonisation (to be clear, this is only roughly the 1890s, there are people born in the 1890s that are still living). Events that included conflict with whiteness, like the burning down of several Nigerian cities by the British, is a very blurry and unrelated event for most Nigerians, coupled with the shaming of Africans that point to colonisers as at least having something to do with African problems past and present, yeah, even Atlantic slavery.
To remove the detail from the previous paragraph, Nigerians only know of whiteness as this benevolent, dreamy, blurry, ancient force that came sometime in ancient times (the 19th century) to uplift their ancestors from bush life.
This is a response to the Nigerian posters I've seen on this topic, which apparently quotes some former Apartheid era South African president doing the whole unwarranted analysis of the 'black race' thing that a few white men have been doing over the last 500 years, in fact 3000 years. There is an overwhelming support for this dictator on that thread and his apparent views on the waste of space dark skinned people are. Whether this quote is legitimate is not really interesting, what is is how that complete lack of knowledge of history can bring a population down to its knees.
Yes, I'm suggesting that Nigerians and their lack of comprehension for history is one of the reasons the country is where it is. There was no reason to burn down Benin City in the sense that the British had already captured power and looted it, but if Benin was left standing then the narrative that Nigerians have bought, which can be seen through the linked thread, would have been harder to drill in when we have ancient indigenous thriving cities all over the country. History is part of nationalism, and Nigerians do not see a country worthy. A country that is not worthy means that it is a free for all. When this very strategically designed chain of command has run through, the perpetrators become the wise ones that speak the bitter, but clear truth about the inferiority of the same people they have set on and leashed. It legitimises colonisation in the first place.Perfect little example is the gay issue (if you don't get it I'm not explaining it). British people have had 2000+ years of history being colonised, they knew what they were doing.
These posters are reacting as a result of the completion of a chain of command that becomes self sustaining, whether this can be changed is for another thread. All I can say is at least Nigeria was populated enough to withstand going through what a Kenya or South Africa went through.
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