GREEN WHITE GREEN
IF ONLY OUR LAND COULD TELL US OUR HISTORY,
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL US HER STORY,
SINCE BIRTH, SHE'S BEEN FIGHTING FOR HER HONOR AND GLORY,
SHE'S BEEN IN MISERY THROUGHOUT HER HISTORY,
IF ONLY NIGERIAN COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
OF HOW SHE CAME TO BE IN 1914,
WHEN HER COLONIAL MASTERS CAME TO INTERVENE,
THEY CREATED HER FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH INTEREST,
MERGING HER NORTH AND SOUTH,
CONTROLLING A LARGER AREA WAS THEIR INTENT,
60 MILLION PEOPLE OF MORE THAN 300 DIFFERING ETHNIC AND CULTURAL GROUP,
THIS WAS BOUND TO CAUSE REGRET.
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL YOU HER SAD STORY,
OF HOW HER CITIZEN'S CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY CAUSED HER CALAMITY,
EVEN AFTER HER INDEPENDENCE IN OCT 1960,
THEN BEGAN A STRUGGLE FOR POWER TO RULE, LARGELY BETWEEN 3 ETHNIC ENTITIES
THIS PROVOKED HER UNITY AND BROUGHT ABOUT THE THREAT OF SECESSION EVENTUALLY.
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
OF HOW THINGS FELL APART, BEGINNING 15TH JAN 1966,
NIGERIA FIRST COUP WAS CARRIED OUT, THOUGH IT WAS WEAK,
IT'S AIM WAS TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION BUT IT ONLY CAUSED RUPTURE,
THE RESULT WAS A 2 & HALF YEAR WAR BETWEEN MAINLY TWO DIFFERING CULTURE,
SECESSION, THIS WAS THEIR INTENTION,
AGGRESSION, DEPRESSION WAS WHAT RESULTED THEN ON,
AFTER 3 YEARS OF SORROW AND WAR, NIGERIA STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN HER UNITY,
EVEN AFTER THEN, WE DIDN'T LEARN OUR LESSON
AFTER THE WAR THAT ENDED 1970,
COUP AFTER COUP WE WENT THROUGH A 28 YEAR RULE BY THE MILITARY,
IN BETWEEN WAS ONLY 4 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY.
IF ONLY NIGERIAN COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
57 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE,
THROUGHOUT SHE'S BEEN BATTLING FOR PEACE AND UNITY,
THROUGHOUT SHE'S BEEN RULED BY BAD GOVERNANCE,
BUT SHE'S BEEN REALLY ENDURANT
THAT HOPEFULLY, ONE DAY SHE WILL TURN OUT TRIUMPHANT .
Happy Independence and Happy New Month to you. May Freedom locate everything that pertain to us and our Country (Amin).
©Damilare_Mapper
IF ONLY OUR LAND COULD TELL US OUR HISTORY,
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL US HER STORY,
SINCE BIRTH, SHE'S BEEN FIGHTING FOR HER HONOR AND GLORY,
SHE'S BEEN IN MISERY THROUGHOUT HER HISTORY,
IF ONLY NIGERIAN COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
OF HOW SHE CAME TO BE IN 1914,
WHEN HER COLONIAL MASTERS CAME TO INTERVENE,
THEY CREATED HER FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH INTEREST,
MERGING HER NORTH AND SOUTH,
CONTROLLING A LARGER AREA WAS THEIR INTENT,
60 MILLION PEOPLE OF MORE THAN 300 DIFFERING ETHNIC AND CULTURAL GROUP,
THIS WAS BOUND TO CAUSE REGRET.
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL YOU HER SAD STORY,
OF HOW HER CITIZEN'S CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY CAUSED HER CALAMITY,
EVEN AFTER HER INDEPENDENCE IN OCT 1960,
THEN BEGAN A STRUGGLE FOR POWER TO RULE, LARGELY BETWEEN 3 ETHNIC ENTITIES
THIS PROVOKED HER UNITY AND BROUGHT ABOUT THE THREAT OF SECESSION EVENTUALLY.
IF ONLY NIGERIA COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
OF HOW THINGS FELL APART, BEGINNING 15TH JAN 1966,
NIGERIA FIRST COUP WAS CARRIED OUT, THOUGH IT WAS WEAK,
IT'S AIM WAS TO ERADICATE CORRUPTION BUT IT ONLY CAUSED RUPTURE,
THE RESULT WAS A 2 & HALF YEAR WAR BETWEEN MAINLY TWO DIFFERING CULTURE,
SECESSION, THIS WAS THEIR INTENTION,
AGGRESSION, DEPRESSION WAS WHAT RESULTED THEN ON,
AFTER 3 YEARS OF SORROW AND WAR, NIGERIA STRUGGLED TO MAINTAIN HER UNITY,
EVEN AFTER THEN, WE DIDN'T LEARN OUR LESSON
AFTER THE WAR THAT ENDED 1970,
COUP AFTER COUP WE WENT THROUGH A 28 YEAR RULE BY THE MILITARY,
IN BETWEEN WAS ONLY 4 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY.
IF ONLY NIGERIAN COULD TELL YOU HER STORY,
57 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE,
THROUGHOUT SHE'S BEEN BATTLING FOR PEACE AND UNITY,
THROUGHOUT SHE'S BEEN RULED BY BAD GOVERNANCE,
BUT SHE'S BEEN REALLY ENDURANT
THAT HOPEFULLY, ONE DAY SHE WILL TURN OUT TRIUMPHANT .
Happy Independence and Happy New Month to you. May Freedom locate everything that pertain to us and our Country (Amin).
©Damilare_Mapper
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