Now, it must be said that there are so many illiterates scattered all over Nigeria; the unlettered unexposed, intolerant citizens who can’t understand why other tribes don’t come worshipping them in recognition of their superiority. I sincerely don’t get angry with such people, or even if I unconsciously give in to anger when they incite hate, I still try to educate them on the lies and dangers of stereotyping. Now enters Femi Fani-Kayode, an alumnus of Cambridge University, a former minister of the federal government, in 2013 almost thundering in the crude tone and ignorance of Bartholomew: Igbo for that matter! Femi, in an article (the third of a series of lies he called truth and history) laced with bile and hate against the Igbos, described an entire ethnic tribe as “collectively unlettered, uncouth, uncultured, unrestrained and crude in all their ways”. His reason for publishing such destructive thoughts was because, as he claimed, Orji Uzor Kalu, said Lagos was a ‘no-man’s land’. And then he went ahead to affirm that Orji Kalu was his personal friend with whom he is close. Rather than address Kalu’s claim, which I do not subscribe to anyway, he zoomed off to his pastime: hate-stoking. The real danger in allowing that happen is that a set of people, this time not the illiterates, but those who have enough education to be able to read Mr Femi, will erroneously pick up his hate messages and run with them, going into their daily interactions with the Igbos (and other tribes when finally he writes about them) with minds long prejudiced by the lies of a pseudo-intellectual.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:40:54 +0000
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