Nigeria’s central issue is not a problem of the lack of unity in diversity but that of division in oneness. This division in oneness is a function of majoring in the minor differences but minoring in the major similarities of the peoples and cultures of Nigeria. Nigeria, like China, Japan and Norway, is a mono racial entity that hardly qualifies as a diverse country but is more of a plural country; a plurality of the same pre-colonial linguistic and cultural commonwealth.
However, what should have been a moment of joy for Nigerians on the safe return of a precious artefact, became a source of acrimony and dispute over the appropriate name of the dear old ‘Okukor’. The controversy started when the palace officials of Benin Kingdom insisted that the correct name of the returned artefact was not “Okukor” but “Okhokho” because the former is an Igbo word, while the is Bini .
If the contention over the proper name of the returned artefact was intended to highlight the differences between the Nigerian people, it ironically reveals deep similarities and commonalities across the various peoples and cultures of Nigeria. The Okukor, Okhokho or Akuko controversy reveals Nigerians as essentially one people whose over 500 spoken languages are simply variations of a super Nigerian language that is largely mutually intelligible to all.
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