While the African Union continues to push Agenda 2063 and the African Free Continental Trade Area, the questions of ownership and identity might instead of strengthening African relations and trade, lead to deadlier conflicts as evidenced by South Africa’s recent crisis.
For a lot of Nigerians, the illusion of power and maybe even grandeur has been met with this sharp reality check causing everyone to wonder how we drifted so far away from that place where pan-african values drove solidarity and brotherhood across Africa, to a place where it’s “everyone for himself.”
Wondering if this is simply an isolated issue peculiar to South Africa, we must look at Nigeria. We cannot ignore the unsettling nature and responses to the migration of Fulani herders and the suspension of RUGA settlements based on public dissent and discontent in Nigeria about who should be allowed to live and move within her borders.
South Africa understands what it means to be treated worse than “second class” citizens, so the government took a stand with Palestine, an Arab nation. Their position is that Israel has no right to make Palestinians suffer like “foreigners.” Indeed, if the price of this respect is the dehumanisation of other Africans, who for various reasons, have found themselves in South Africa, the local taxi driver does not mind.
What is happening is also a way of reminding foreign black Africans who the landlord is in South Africa. Even though as a traveller or an immigrant, he/she most come to terms with the fact that he/she is never South African, and that the word foreigner, is now an important part of the social construct of the nation.
In order to create stronger communities, cults are formed in the mind, and hearts of a people. Cults in this sense are not the violent secret societies associated with the word. Rather, it is the devotion to a common purpose and heritage. If the cult seeks to elevate its status, then it must topple the bigger powers and suppress any other culture that seeks to become prominent in its territory.
We need to carefully consider how many Nigerians are truly employed with the dignity of labour. How many Nigerians benefit from policies, contracts and trade agreements? Instead, we open our nation up to hostilities like those experienced recently in South Africa.
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