Concerning the Yoruba territory (territory of Indigenous Yoruba People), and which was amalgamated back then with various places/territories which they then named as “Nigeria,” it’s obvious therefore that Nigeria is not a nation, not a country. Since, as we now already know, Yoruba has been a country and a nation from the beginning of time.
Repeatedly I have been saying this – go and check the definition of the word “nation.” Also, check up the definition of the word “country.” Similarly, check up the definition of the word “sovereignty.” Nigeria does not fit into the definition of any of these words! Nigeria is an arrangement by colonial masters, an arrangement by the enslavers. That arrangement is the product of Macaulay’s proposal to the British.
There’s a certain secret concerning nations! The secret is this – man can never create a nation! What man can do is to create an illusion and call it a nation!
The first thing that defines a nation is the indigenous native language of that particular ethnic group. No human being can create an original language. God alone is the one that gave original languages to different peoples. Therefore, there can never be a nation without God being the creator of that nation! A group of persons cannot just decide and name a particular geographical area as a “nation”! It’s not possible for any man to create a nation.
That’s why, Nigeria is not a nation and it’s not a country. But certain people just can’t process that fact!
Nigeria has no sovereignty. All attributes and characteristics of a nation – language, culture, type of indigenous food, and so many more things that define a nation – can only be given by God and never by man.
When the colonisers grouped different peoples together and named the area as “Nigeria,” did the colonisers create a natural language for the entity they named as “Nigeria”? They only forced everybody within the space they named “Nigeria” to speak the colonizer’s own language – the English language. Did they create a new and original language in their colonised territory which they named Nigeria? Of course they didn’t and they couldn’t. Instead, they forced their own language on everybody within the colonised space.
Since the colonizer cannot create original language, they therefore cannot create a nation! Therefore, the amalgamated area called Nigeria is only an illusion and never a nation. Nigeria is an illusion scheme. It is all part of the plan of execution of what Macaulay proposed to them – he proposed that they should change the reality and replace with what is different from the truth. He proposed that they should put an arrangement together to replace the reality on ground in Africa. Nigeria is an indication of such arrangement. Nigeria is an arrangement by the British – it is not a naturally existing entity created by God as a nation with its own natural distinct original language.
Macaulay proposed that they should make changes to the natural setting in Africa, and that’s exactly what the colonizers did.
Since Nigeria, therefore, is a man-made arrangement, nothing good can come out of it. The only beneficiaries of the colonial arrangement, the illusion scheme called Nigeria, the only beneficiaries are the colonizers themselves who by reason of the arrangement have been stealing the resources from there.
You can therefore see that thinking that Nigeria is a nation whereas it is not, is the evidence that there has been brainwashing of the people. They made the people unable to process what actually is the truth about Nigeria. The people therefore have not given themselves the chance of asking, What is the language that makes Nigeria a nation? No language. Which common culture makes it a nation? None. Which common ancestral history makes it a nation? None. Up till now (even now that Indigenous Yoruba People [I.Y.P] of Democratic Republic of the Yoruba [D.R.Y] are no longer a part of Nigeria), even up till now Nigeria do not have a common ancestral history. That is the reason they removed history from the list of subjects to be taught in schools – they have no history that makes them a “nation.” And they now want to re-write history! They want to present a false history. The same way that the colonizers re-wrote the history of Africa, the history of the black people. The same white people that admitted that they met wealth and development in Africa, the same people came again to re-write that history and to say that black people are monkeys with no intelligence and no development, and so many other lies they have told in re-writing the history of Africa. But now God has come with his goodness to us, but some people are going against it! The fact is that you are calling for both the anger of God and of man on yourselves. And that anger has entered into your lives.
Looking at what Macaulay said, he proposed that the British should take steps to ensure that Africa becomes a dominated people and therefore the British would be able to take the resources that make Africa great. How, then, do you think they would put such an arrangement on ground except that it would be for their own benefit? Nigeria is for the colonizer’s benefit. They came to take what belongs to you; how then do you think they would do anything for your own benefit? This means that those who the colonizer would use, the traitors and enemies within the population, who they would use, they would tell them to make sure that the colonial interest is protected. You can be sure that the colonizer would always ensure that the colonial arrangement they had set down – the arrangement for taking African resources to their own land – is what those enemies within, what they would always do. In other words, it is that colonial arrangement that favours the colonizer but not the owners of the resources themselves, it is that arrangement that those who are now opposing I.Y.P of D.R.Y, it is that arrangement that they want to continue in. They want to continue under slavery. However, our race, I.Y.P of D.R.Y, is no longer under slavery. That is the good thing that God has done for us and nobody, ever, can take us back into slavery.
Look again at the last point properly – that those who put the colonial arrangement in place, did it for their own benefit, so that they can truly dominate Africa; how then can the arrangement ever be to the benefit of those who own the resources? It’s not possible!
So far, we have said various things – how the ọbas have been removed from power and authority (yes, ọbas have been removed from the system, and very long ago too). Then the entire arrangement of taking what is ours from us, to the advantage of the coloniser. Let’s know that a problem identified is a problem whose solution is at hand. That’s why we need to look closely at these facts concerning the colonial arrangement and the accompanying brainwashing. The very moment your mind can process and recognize what the enemy, the colonizer, did to us, then that very moment, understanding will come to you! And no stupid person would be able to brainwash you.
See what the colonizers also did – brainwashing people with regards to the issue of the ọbas.
In the first place, they can never create a nation! That is never within the power of man to do. God is the one that established that. Because it was when the issue of the Tower of Babel came up, that was when he gave each nation their own land and their own language. That’s what is clearly seen all over the world today. Each real nation has got their own language, different from another. And, nations are described with their language. Each nation is defined by their language in their territory. But that is not possible in the colonial arrangement called Nigeria. Because Nigeria is man-made. The colonialists are the ones who put the arrangement called Nigeria in place! And you have been told the reason why they set up the arrangement. And you already know that the reason why they set up the arrangement can never be to the benefit or advantage of the real owners of the land and the resources.
Remember the colonizers are the ones who removed the ọbas from power and authority, but physically (without any power or authority) they left them there to use them to oppress the people! Because they saw that the existence of Division of Class which the obas operated before the colonialists came, made the ọbas to be oppressors of the people. Whatever the ọba says was binding on the people, even when the things they said and did was abuse of power! Having seen that, the colonizers kept the ọbas there physically when as a matter of fact they had removed monarchy by removing power and authority from the ọbas. But they left them there physically and used them by telling them what to say to the people, knowing that the people wouldn’t ever dare to disobey the ọba. So, whatever oppressive measure the colonial masters wanted to impose on the people, they would ask the ọbas (who themselves have had their power and authority removed from them), but the colonial master would tell them to tell the people things which were actually coming from the colonial master! They would also tell the ọbas what to do to their people but which was for the advantage of the colonizer and the oppression of the people! Take note of these things! They brainwashed the people to make them think that the ọba was still there wielding power, whereas as a matter of fact, monarchy had been cancelled, there was no longer any oba in real terms! That’s why they could encourage the now non-existent but figure-head ọbas to destroy the culture of the people. Examples include the now figure-head ọbas taking non-Yoruba women as wives! Abomination!
The colonizers also brainwashed the so-called “elites” (the western-educated professionals and others); they got brainwashed and started being instruments used by the colonial masters to do evil to the people. They thereby became traitors and evil seeds among their own people, their own race. They made their ability to speak and write the English language (the language of colonization, the language of the colonizer) they made it an instrument of oppression, intimidation and of shaming, embarrassing and taking away the rights of their own fellow-Yorubas who are not trained in western education and culture and therefore couldn’t speak and write in the English language or couldn’t do so properly. By so doing the so-called elites were destroying destinies of their own people but who did not have western education. By not allowing those people to have equal opportunities with those who had western education and who were trained in the colonizer’s way of life!
That was how the colonizer used the so-called elite to achieve the aim of changing the life of our people to the advantage of the colonial master. They changed us from speaking our own language to speaking theirs. They made us to start eating their own kind of food rather than ours. They changed our education system – the education system that our forefathers had. They compulsorily made us to accept and receive and adopt their own educational system. Whereas there is no benefit for us in their own education system. Because they wanted to be sure that the colonizing arrangement they were putting in place would remain unshakable, they ensured, just as Macaulay told them, that they replaced our ancient education system – because Macaulay saw that our educational system was making us very advanced. They spoke evil against our traditional Yoruba science, pretending and lying that it is evil! They would lie that our traditional science is evil while they themselves would turn around to use that same science!
Without our language, we cannot know our history – our history is communicated to us by our elders through our own Language. Our elders would have to tell us our oríkì, for instance, using our language! They would have to use our language to tell us the history and identification of our lineage. But, since our language was taken from us and we are made to take pride in speaking the colonizer’s language, how many I.Y.P today know their own oríkì? The so-called elites were used to achieve this Evil. Families and relatives hardly know themselves because there has been a division into the “educated” and “uneducated” (using the colonizer’s education system as the standard). They have been divided into the so-called “ajẹbọ́tà” on one side and the so-called “bush people” on the other – all because the education brought by the colonizer created its own division of class. It’s all the colonial master’s strategy to make us not to know our history by disconnecting us from our own traditional education system that would teach us that history, and from our own family through whom the knowledge would be shared. They did all of this so they could re-write our history! And, indeed they had started the re-writing of our history but God has stopped their plans! They changed our dressing and clothing style and our food habits and the so-called elite were the instruments they used! Remember that Macaulay specifically said to the British that they should break the African backbone part of which he said was our cultural heritage. They so much changed our dressing culture that some Yorubas don’t even have our Yoruba traditional dresses in their wardrobe!
They made us to abandon our traditional dances! They made us abandon our paintings and art forms while we instead patronize Mona Lisa and the products of Leonardo da Vinci. They did all of this “replacement,” using the so-called elites, so that we would completely forget our own History, our own Identity. For instance, it is a sorrowful thing seeing our people who were sold into slavery, seeing them having completely lost their own Identity! They no longer know their Roots. They no longer know their lineage! Except in a few cases where such information have been passed down and maintained. That’s how colonizers wipe out indigenous people. They make you lose your identity! They use various ways. Sometimes they do it through inter-marriage! So that the percentage of indigenous blood will keep reducing until it is completely wiped out! They don’t care how many years it would take them, their aim is to change the demography until any visitor or casual observer would think that the invaders are the actual indigenous people! It’s all pre-planned. So much of this has happened in North Africa. In some cases they commit outright genocide to wipe out the indigenous population while in others they would use man-made spread of killer diseases to wipe out the people. In some cases they would introduce the indigenous population to hard drugs just to get them destroyed.
We will not forget our own history. We will re-write our history, writing our true history by ourselves!
Every evil that the colonizers have done have also been passed down to their own descendants, and they give their descendants instructions on how to continue the oppression! Let’s take note of all these things! We will write down the activities of the enemies within, including the present enemies within who are working against I.Y.P of D.R.Y. They cannot succeed but the story will be written down and placed in our museum and our children will learn it in schools, they will know what happened and who the present enemies within are, by their names.
