Someone asked on @Quora, "What are the main factors that are militating against the Nigerian government not paying high premium to her citizens’ lives?"
I have made an effort to answer. Please feel free to disagree, and let's debate it (I may not respond immediately).
I have made an effort to answer. Please feel free to disagree, and let's debate it (I may not respond immediately).
The answer to the question is centuries in the making.
#Nigeria's elite does not value the lives of their citizens because it's just how it is, and how it has been since the two slave trades, Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic.
Look at these two maps, one Arab, one English.
#Nigeria's elite does not value the lives of their citizens because it's just how it is, and how it has been since the two slave trades, Trans-Saharan and Trans-Atlantic.
Look at these two maps, one Arab, one English.
This first map is a transliteration of an ancient Arab map of African trade routes.
The Trans-Saharan trade started long before any European came this way, and one of the important components of this trade was slaves.
Note where the Arabs sourced most of their slaves from.
The Trans-Saharan trade started long before any European came this way, and one of the important components of this trade was slaves.
Note where the Arabs sourced most of their slaves from.
This second map was made in 1914 by a company in #Scotland.
In 1914!
Look at where they called the Slave Coast, then think of the region the Europeans extracted the vast majority of their slaves from.
Yes, that region, and Arab sources, are roughly in modern-day #Nigeria.
In 1914!
Look at where they called the Slave Coast, then think of the region the Europeans extracted the vast majority of their slaves from.
Yes, that region, and Arab sources, are roughly in modern-day #Nigeria.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther was sold, along with 11 other human beings, for a horse.
At about the same time, the largest slave population on Earth was not in #America as is usually assumed, but in the Sokoto Empire.
At about the same time, the largest slave population on Earth was not in #America as is usually assumed, but in the Sokoto Empire.
I've read studies conducted in the 1980s in which people who were still alive (but into their 90s at the time) still referred to themselves as slaves in the Adamawa region.
That, is one of #Nigeria's problems, North and South.
Our elite has always seen our (their) people as commodities that are expendable.
"Plenty more where they came from," and why not?
You see it in the way our elite treat us. They simply don't care.
We don't exist.
Our elite has always seen our (their) people as commodities that are expendable.
"Plenty more where they came from," and why not?
You see it in the way our elite treat us. They simply don't care.
We don't exist.
Important addition to this thread courtesy @tundeleye
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Someone who died in 1919 in Badagry sold 40 human beings for this umbrella during the 1800s.
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Someone who died in 1919 in Badagry sold 40 human beings for this umbrella during the 1800s.
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