Olurotimi Osha

At last, quintessential Nigerian art, looted by British marauders in the 19th century and which are du jour residents of western museums, may return home, where it belongs in the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria (not to be mistaken with the Republic of Benin, the country in West Africa).

In 1992, the world of music changed and civility in the arts became pejorative, as the once unacceptable and inflammatory content of hard-core rap valorising misogynistic, homophobic, gangster and other bigoted themes were mainstreamed into music and pop culture.

“In the aftermath of the civil war, the much-expanded size of the military, around 250,000 in 1977, consumed a large part of Nigeria’s resources under military rule for little productive return.”

Adulation keeps flowing in, after the release of Black Panther, Marvel’s black superhero movie that features many Black firsts: the all Black star-studded cast, led by a Black superhero, and his Black love interest, was directed by a Black man.

President Trump’s alleged invective, mislabelling African states and Haiti as sh*thole countries, merely voices the attitude of most westerners toward the zip code of Africans.

Why should you care? Because e pluribus unum, means “out of many one.” There is strength in our diversity.

Many people are rightly aggrieved in Nigeria. Not just Igbos. In fact most Igbos who have been able to overcome the tragedy of and fallout from the Nigerian Civil War do not agitate for a separatist state.