Maybe I should've PM'd it but f*** it, nobody checks that s***
@birthcertificate

it's weird
comparing history and trying to reconcile the external factors in what you feel like is your 'normal' lived experience a funny thing man

as someone who is Nigerian (grew up in the U.S) and yet from a very Christian family, it can be mind boggling that we put so much stock into this belief system that was (to the cynical me) essentially a vehicle for the British to survey the land and resources, and turn our people into decently literate clerical workers at best who were good little boys and girls and didn't fight back.

It's no secret that for many years in Nigeria's history, the only way to get an education and try to move up economically was to go to a British Mission school, since they owned almost all of the schools in the south of Nigeria until the end of the civil wars in the 1970s.

The zeal of my family surrounding religion in many ways makes me question my entire life when I really think too deep about it, especially since I have many religious ministers in my family.
Like, I love them, but if this wasn't the path Nigeria went down, I wonder what they would really be like.