By ODILIM ENWEGBARA
I have carefully studied South Africans all these years. From the many year of this study, I will tell you that I knew that these killings of fellow Africans were inevitable. And unfortunately, more and more will happen in the next few years as a result of their false superiority complex.
So, when it’s all over then we will be amazed how this same South Africa will eventually become Africa’s worst state both socially and economically.
First, our brothers and sisters in South Africa have been over pampered since the end of apartheid by the rest of the world. And that as a result made them to believe that what happened to them never happened anywhere in the world.
Second, without saying it loud they seem to always believe that they are the superior species of the black race, only comparable to African Americans. And it is this that explains, for example, why their High Commission in Abuja is facing the EU Office in Abuja.
Third, South African politicians are massively corrupt like their Nigerian counterparts. But unlike South Africans, Nigerians have since moved on, without expecting anything good from their politicians. And that is why Nigerians are thriving self mades at the worst business environments.
Self denial and arrogant that comes from immaturity is why South Africans are drowning and pretending that all is well.
Fourth, since Nigeria was declared the largest economy in Africa, there has been an undeclared cold war. That’s why to bring down Nigeria besides use of blackmail South Africa has also use the white South African owned businesses operating in Nigeria such as MTN, Shoprite, DSTV, etc. as weapons to bring Nigeria to its knees.
Fifth — and this is where the biggest danger lies — South Africans are extremely lazy, extremely expectant, and extremely alcoholic, and other vices that cannot champion hard work and prosperity.
From all, I want to be quoted and I truly mean it even though I’m sadly saying it, South Africans may not mature to come to face the hard times that will bring them to their senses, humble them, and force them to begin to recognize that we were all victims of colonialism and the current post-colonial imperialism.
Unfortunately, it will not take long before this highly corrupt and highly fractioned socially and economically state is hard hit by reality which will come like a fast moving train.
They should stop seeing hardworking Nigerians living in their country as a threat. When the reality comes certainly they will be forced to learn economic independence from these Nigerians. Nigerians who came to their country with few dollars and within few years own factories and farms and as a result live in mansions that now bring envy.
Stop pretending that all is well when the reverse is truly the case. Humbly come to Nigeria and learn the art of corporate entrepreneurship. Our great entrepreneurs such as Dangote, Ovia, Adenuga, Elumelu, Innocen, Efab, etc. will willingly mentor you and even follow you to your country to assist you practice corporate entrepreneurship to help you retrieve your country’s economy from the hands of Asians and Europeans.
Note that there is no other shorter route to your economic independence; after all, of what use is political independence when you are still economically subservient to your former white supremacists.
Odilim, a Development Economist writes from Abuja.
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