THE NO-EUROPEAN-MULTIETHNIC/MULTI-TRIBAL-NATION ARGUMENT - The Error of Yoruba Nation & IPOB Agitators By Saheed Olayinka Shittu

DISCLAIMER: Here’s not denying anyone their fundamental rights to protest or to seek better living conditions or wish for a better country]

“Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it’s still a construct with significant implications for the world. How people perceive ethnicity, both their own and that of others, can be tough to measure, particularly given that it’s so subjective.” Max Fisher, Washington Post, May 16 2013.

I have been seeing this invalid argument for so long, that Europe has no single multiethnic or multitribal nation, examples are given of the break up of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, USSR, etc.

Someone is not seeing a multiethnic nation on a continent (Europe) that have multiracial examples.

Very recently, Germany welcomed and integrated more than two million migrants, majority of them Muslim-Arabs, people of such ethnic minorities heritage produced Germany’s first Covid-19 vaccines. As at 2019, 13.7million or 17% Germans are first generation migrants, we all know those include our local separatists champions, including the Yoruba Nation lead activist who have feathered a nest in Germany and where he was destined when he was stopped, if Yorubaland burn down today he, or at least his family, will be safe Germans or Canadians, NOT Oduduwans, Yoruba nationalists or whatever we choose to fool ourselves with. France is multiethnic, full of blacks and Arabic Africans, so is the United Kingdom.

I have just listed the three most powerful nations in Europe, if you were to list the next seven to make top ten be certain all seven will be nations with significant migrants or ethnic diversity, one may include Israel and Russia, the break up of the USSR didn’t leave Russia a singularity ethnicity nation, neither did the Israeli project or the fact that both Jews and Arabs are children of Abraham make Israel purely Jewish-Arabic nation, when we even consider that Jews migrated from all over North and East Africa to Israel, those also went with mixed heritage and culture.

Count the TOP TEN most powerful nations on earth or the future powers and show me a nation that has a pure ethnicity, origin or religion, please know that these include China (who is using the BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE, BRI, to exploit global diversity) and the Indian subcontinent (who have previously lost Pakistan, who in turn lost Bangladesh), their people may appear same but they are not, in fact, these nations also view Africans, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa as one and same people, how many globally respected journalist, or editor still bundles all of Africa together in their works? Most.

SINGULARITY.
Somalia is an example of a nation that is 100% same religion, Sunni, 85% same, unchanged, undiversified, ethnic and tribal stock yet it is also the perfect example of a failed state.

As if that wasn’t enough lesson, South Sudan bitterly cried to the world that they must divorce

the main Sudan, after much struggle, they got independence, Sudan got peace instead while the South Sudan flared up, the world soon abandoned that young nation to the effort of their same Sudan they left, they became Sudan’s concern more than that of any other nation (needless to point out that Darfur apparently learnt some lessons from the South Sudan failure).

Just last week, letters came out of meetings being called by an association of Yoruba Nation Christians, this is unsurprising as Muslim Rights Concern leader, a Professor, have already declared that Yoruba Muslims will rather remain in Nigeria.

Nobody has the answer and nobody seems to be seeking for it.

ETHNIC DIVERSITY.
Surprisingly, World Atlas, by their own definition of ethnic diversity, ranked Nigeria 18th in the world behind tiny entities like Somalia, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Ghana, Gabon, Madagascar, Congo, Togo, Cameroon, Liberia, Uganda, DRC and Tanzania, the first on that list, universally accepted as the most diverse nation in the world ethnically, is none other than tiny Papua New Guinea, a country that, at about 9million population, is roughly 4.5% of Nigeria. How do all those countries belt down their differences? Did you know Togo or Ghana had these diversity? Liberia’s war was for liberation, it was political not ethnic or tribal.

DIASPORA STARS HYPOCRISY.
Since we find it abominable that we were all bunched up with hundreds of hated tribes and ethnicities, why do we rush abroad or celebrate our people who have naturalized out there as ours? I think we should hate those deserters too, I don’t think we will celebrate any one of ‘our tribe’ who chooses to represent some other tribe here but we will rush to identify with our ‘tribal children’ (some, three generations down e.g. Tennis sisters Williams) who records success for some foreign nations, especially when they are same nations that bunched us up after colonization and slavery.

Africa Wake up.

Blast Nigeria into a thousand nations, if we don’t exorcise the bastards we will only regress and of course the more broken we are the weaker, it is self deception that some group think they too will turn to Israel of Africa in a few decades or Dubai of the Sub-Sahara in a short time with terrible corrupt leaders sitting up there.

Saheed Olayinka Shittu is the CEO of Majestic Edifice Architects and a public affairs commentator. He can be reached on 08066450045, saheedolayinkas@gmail.com.