I suspected this country would one day kill me but I am not ready to go yet. Last night, a good non-Northern doctor helped to give me a new lease of life when I could have been on my way out. Throughout much of the North, our primary concern is like the people of every other...
...region: having a good life and ensuring our children have opportunities to prosper. Being free to live without terror, build assets, practice our faith and celebrate our culture. Like all tribes, every tribe in the North has a heritage to be proud of and teach their young in..
...Most of our leaders, like leaders of all regions, have betrayed and deceived us. They have been selfish and cunning. They have left us at the mercy of terrorists and thugs. In most areas, we are on our own to survive while they wine and dine with evil-doers. We take up the...
...work others cannot or will not do... for money just like others do what they do for money. Yet when the masses are merely trying to survive, others blame the innocent poor among us for somehow causing all the country’s woes. What blinds us from knowing who are real enemies...
...and who are innocent masses caught up in the countless systemic injustices that those in power have constructed and maintained for their personal (not tribal) benefit? What manner of colonial education and...
...mass disinformation have blocked our brains from accessing the power to reason and have sense? As people of the North who believe largely in God, I plead with you to practice elevating yourselves beyond blood feudalism and the tribal wars of old. Is it not these jahiliyyah...
...ways that made us vulnerable to partake in the transAtlantic slave trade and colonial conquest? The politics of divide and rule is a powerful one but we in the North have greater problems to focus on. Let the mess in the South not begin to infect us. We are people who ought...
...to have minds of our own and not become mere copycats of others. Stand up for our higher values and do not let the region deteriorate further. Only our politicians have anything to gain by escalating this situation.
Our primary focus now should be on getting our people developed, erasing the foolishness and gutter thinking from the minds of our elite, solving problems, flushing ourselves of terrorists and bandits, expanding access to opportunities for our youth and vulnerable populations...
...Rebuilding our infrastructure and developing our economy. We have no time to waste by getting side-tracked into warmongering and channeling of energy for evil causes.

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