Thursday 5 June 2008

No Cure for Colonial Mentality

By Hakeem Babalola
Matters Arising

A 10-yr-old Nigerian girl says, “If I have the chance to go to London, I won’t come back to this stupid country”. Another 12-yr-old boy quips, “Oyinbo are better than us”. Nigerian politicians die and bury people’s money in England and environs. My sister bleaches her skin and washes away her crown with different chemicals in her bid to straighten or curl her hair – her identity. Are we all victims as well as perpetrators of colonial mentality?click to read story