NIGERIANS NEOCOLONIALISM MENTALITY: AIR PEACE ISI-AGU COSTUME
Atimes I wondered aloud who has "bewitched us" in the words of Paul the Apostle to the Galatian church. How did we come to this level of mental and intellectual decadence and depravity? How did we come to prefer foreign culture to ours?
The whites gave us political independence but continue to mentally colonise us. The seed of NEOCOLONIALISM they sowed has grown into a mighty forest infecting and affecting every facet and industry in Nigeria and Africa in general. It has continually relegated our culture, customs, norms and values to the background and portray them as inferior. There's need for the government and other stakeholders to put all hands on deck to ensure that this abnormality is corrected and urgent process enacted for a journey back to our roots.
Why will the we call suit formal wear and call our traditional attire casual wear; Why would the church enforce traditional wedding and white wedding instead of priestly blessings in place of white wedding when white wedding is the white man's traditional marriage, Why is our education system still using English as L1 when all advanced countries in the world are teaching in their languages(Britain, America, France, Russia, China, Japan, India etc), why will a white expertriate be paid more and given more preference than their Nigerian counterpart in their own country, why do we preach tourism even when the tourist guide is showcasing another culture in his dress code, and why would we foolishly rebuke air peace for her crew traditional ISI-AGU dress code and not rebuke Emirate Airlines crew for their religious and traditional attire of hijab? The entertainment industry is the most and worst affected. Pursuit of profit over values has seen the proliferation of the industry with diverse strange attitudes that are strange and toxic to our society. Thank God for certain stations and programmers that still upholds our traditional, customary, cultural values and norms.
When a people see nothing good in what they have, others will join hand to abuse what they have. When a people continually celebrate other culture above theirs, they are indirectly making their culture insignificant. In a world of today that tourism is money, why on earth do we subject our mind to such neocolonial depravity.
I celebrate with Air Peace for their ingenuity and boldness to make a difference. Other enterprise and industries should emulate such worthy feat and example. Until we celebrate what we have, they will never become celebrities. Until we intentionally advertised what we have, it will continue to be local. There's need to enshrine in our consciousness and interactions this conscious exposure of our various cultures in all our local and international outings and business.
Kudos to Air Peace.
Congratulations Chief Allen Onyema
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