A Nation without Citizens - Dele Farotimi | #delefarotimi #news #politics
The Nigerian state, undermines its own long term integrity and cohesion, with the promotion of graded citizenship, preservation of historical rights, and the blatant injustices thus engendered, nurtured, and promoted.
Aboriginal rights may not be conflated with citizenship rights, and it is important to point out that aboriginal rights, properly administered, guarantees that nations, addresses historical wrongs. What we have in Nigeria, are not the promotion and or preservation of aboriginal rights, what we have, can only be likened to internal colonialism, and or apartheid, the several reactions to this unjust system, are what will eventually kill Nigeria. If we don’t figure out a way to reinvent it… Click the link in bio to read full article
First published 11 January, 2017.