You want a better Nigeria. You want a better Africa. But are you ready to do what it truly takes to achieve it? One cannot solve a problem one does not understand. You cannot fix a land you do not know. You cannot build a future if you are disconnected from the very foundation upon which it stands.

If you want a better Nigeria, ask yourself why. If you want a better Africa, ask yourself why. If you want a better world, ask yourself why you want a better world. Why do you want something better? What’s wrong with the current one? These are significant questions to ask ourselves as a people. And more importantly, for whom do we want this better life? Is it for the people or for the land? Is it for personal needs or for justice? Or is it simply for comfort within a system that was never designed for one to exist wholly?

The Nigerian experience today is a significant study. A kind to learn and understand, an unavoidable challenge to face and overcome. It has become  national responsibility, not only Nigerians themselves, but to the rest of the world. 

Nigeria as we know it today is not an organic creation, it is a political construct, shaped during the Berlin Conference, within the broader context of the Scramble for Africa. A moment in history where African lands were partitioned, not with cultural understanding, but with economic intentions and significant memorial erasures. Borders were drawn not to unite people, but to manage resources, labor, and control.

This was not just geography being divided, it was identity and ancestry. The system that emerged was not simply colonial, it was structural. A design rooted in extraction, sustained by division, and maintained through the gradual erosion of indigenous knowledge systems, governance structures, and collective ancestral memory. What followed was not unity, it was forced coexistence. A struggle for power and dominance, a subtle identity crisis.

The 1914 Amalgamation of Nigeria did not merge a people, it merged administrative regions. It placed diverse nations, each with their own histories, languages, cosmologies, and systems of governance, into a single political container and called it a "country". But a name does not create unity, and time alone does not heal disconnection.

The consequences of this foundation echo into the present. Political instability, ethnic tension, distrust in governance, and cycles of conflict are not random, they are symptoms. Symptoms of a structure built without alignment to the people it governs.

When we speak of Nigeria, we must also speak of the nations within it, the Yoruba nation, the Igbo nation, the Hausa and the Fulani nation as many others, whose identities existed long before colonial borders were imposed. For example, the Yoruba homeland itself was divided across what are now Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. This was not merely a division of land, it was a fragmentation of cultural continuity.

To understand the present, you must study the fracture. Because what we call conflict today may actually be misalignment. What we call instability may actually be unresolved history. What we call tribalism might be a misunderstanding of one another. And what we call underdevelopment may be the result of systems that were never designed for indigenous prosperity. So again, what does a “better Nigeria” mean? What does it mean to the Nigerians themselves? Does it mean improving the current structure? Or does it mean rethinking the very foundation entirely? One thing is certain, Nigerians cannot sustain more conflicts and war for too long. And for any change to be effective, Nigerians must be able to truthfully analyze the elements contributing to their reality, and not only be able to talk about it, but also be brave enough to decide it is time to be accountable and responsible by coming up with progressive solutions that can ensure the survival of the Nigerian people.

This is where the work begins. Not with slogans. Not with temporary reforms. But with a deep, collective re-education and social re-engineering of consciousness. A return to the knowing. A reconstruction of identity that is not defined by imposed borders, but by cultural truth and historical awareness. Because until people understand who they are, learn to be respectful of one another, they will continue to operate within systems that define them. And until that changes, the question is not whether Nigeria can be better, the question is whether its people are ready to truly understand their own life.

Nigeria is a country of 300 million people plus, shared the biggest between Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, and the rest. It is a country of hundreds of languages and linguistic relatives. Nigeria became a country on October 1st, 1960, marking the end of direct colonial control. Recognizing that it is a country that was created upon a flawed foundation, built for corruption, conclusively designed to fail. 

By 1967, Nigeria had its first civil war involving investors from overseas, starting from the Northern Fulani-Hausa religious and cultural political and economical clash against educated Southern Nigerian Christians in the Northern region who are mostly Igbo groups and other southerners in smaller numbers like the Yoruba, etc who were also victims of the great religious massacre. This event and civil war led to the loss of millions of Nigerians and Biafran Igbo groups who lost their lives within a few years of the war, including some of their neighbors in the middle belt and Southwest. 

Could this could have been avoided, probably yes, but the ones responsible for keeping the  people of the land safe are as ignorant of the elements of the severity of their own creation. Arrogance and ignorance has their own cost. In my own personal opinion, these people are justifiably stupid, and as a result of their stupidity, millions of black Africans lost their lives. What have we learned from this first war? Ignorance leads to arrogance, and arrogance can lead to extinction of a race. 

We must begin to learn from the mistakes of our ancestors and our warriors. We must begin to learn to recognize our true enemies and battles. We must step away from ignorance, and begin to cultivate a new consciousness as a society, leaving the old old world behind in order to create a new kind that we all can survive.  We must fix our family, our forests, our rivers, we must learn to grow our own food and make our own medicine again. We must learn to bond with our forests, our animals, and our people all over again. We must know our place in the world and accept our responsibilities to one another in alignment. This is the ultimate sacrifices that must be made by us for the people coming ahead. A new Nigeria must emerge, and a new kingdom must come. 

Welcome to the United Nations of Nigeria, the new Kingdom.