Welcome to Darkness

How far?

A few days ago, on the 30th of may while home with my uncle after he had just made this tantalising Indomie that was tickling my sense, he sat across me and those were the first words he spoke, I knew we were about to have a conversation for the first time in a while, but as I dey, Na that Indomie dey tickle my brain.

" How do you think Covid-19 has affected the education sector in Nigeria?"

Omo I pause for a few seconds before remember me that I'm currently in that system, both as a teacher and a student, combined with the stories from my cooperative teacher where I did my teaching practice and my mates who had been to various schools seeing various perspectives, it was obvious from where I sat that this was the best possible thing that could happen to Education in Nigeria, that finally a shift in Innovation would be forced in order to make the best of time at home and if that didn't happen then we would be preparing to backslide, the age of the internet has now created an infinite potential for developing education, so as a scholar, I simply told him the effects would be outstanding (I can't remember the exact adjective I used)

It was followed up by an enquiry into what I thought of the current system and unless you are living in France and spent only your first year alive in Nigeria, you would agree with me that the educational system is a circus on the edge of Everest; in other words, Fucked up and at best, a lottery system, just like the United States of America and Nigeria as a whole, the latter of which he went on to elaborate.

You see, my uncle has always been a servant first and for that very reason he was a leader who lived with relatives because Nigeria failed them as a generation, this was the whole point he drove at, explaining to me how politicians from the generations of Late Chief M.K.O Abiola were still in the system claiming to be in their 60s, that when Absolutely new government bodies were founded to drive a change into the system, they were simply filled up by people who were already a part of the failed system, the system that failed our women and lets assaulters and men with little to no education be in charge of creating the laws to protect the people.

The system that doesn't bother arresting stupid, disgusting and corrupt men in uniform that shoot at the very citizens they are to protect.

The system that puts men in stations that laugh when cases of rape are reported to them followed by questions like "what was she wearing?" "What were you doing outside at that time?"

The disgusting system that lets pigs in power laugh at the fruitless efforts of the people to protest because they know their piglets in uniform will not hesitate to shoot tear gas and beat down people who ask for what is rightfully theirs.

The system that pioneers and visionaries dreamer would be one that the people would be proud of only to be replaced by a series of unfortunate people; merciless looters, wicked men, Evil men, manipulative people, Greedy senators, Disgusting Judges and legalised Criminals

The ugly pitch Black system in which men sexually harass women in public places; in markets, buses, schools, churches.

This isn't a piece that ends with a message of hope or a call to action

This is a nightmare we live in, this is a horror, this is Nigeria in 2020.