Complex is an energy, how one uses such either makes or mars an individual. Until human beings understand the power inherent in them, power unlimited, designed to do the unimaginable, we would be living our lives through the approval mirror of others, allowing the very real self of ours to die and waste in idle and vain competition.
We are differently created, differently endowed, achieving different purpose, goals destines and values differently , as grace enables one.
Tall or short, fat or slim, beauty or ugly, riches or poverty, intelligent or dullness etc are all strength and weaknesses , complementing each other.
No one is prominent in all the two options, none is tall and at the same time short.
The intelligently endowed, the rich etc may not have a complete life without the poor and mentally weak ones.
None is an island , we need each other and together, in love, our goals and purpose are achieved.
We need one another, the space is to big to accommodate the flapping of our wings no matter how wide spread.
The Igbos are enterprising, they are domineering, they are industrious, religious and entrepreneurially savvy. These are assumptions and impressions, true or otherwise, they are neither indispensable nor self-sufficient. They cry too, with a lot of deficiencies which other tribes have as strength.
When one begins to see other people from the position of complex ( inferior or superior) what follows is usually unhealthy competition, hatred victimisation, insecurity etc.
The problem the Igbos have with other tribes is basically on complex, either inferiority or superiority.
From the dust and ashes of Nigeria/Biafra war, to the alienation and victimisation in political positions and appointment, one can only ask ,what is it about the Igbos that other tribes are afraid and uncomfortable about?
They leave their ancestry homes for a strange land, in pursuit of greener pastures, striving and struggling, making their new home better home and comfortable than their home of birth.
The buy,build, invest, empower and make their environment a pride of place. Could that be their fault and crime?
Home for them is where they get their daily bread, a true definition of Nationalism ( The ala wu otu mindset) could that be their sin?
They get into churches, take ownership , build it and make the liturgy as lively and enjoyable as they can. Could that be their fault?
Igbo , Hausa, Yoruba etc are envitable parts in making Nigeria a great nation, coming together and forming a strong whole creates a bigger future for the whole.
No part survives alone, victimising and suppressing a part to stop it on its track of success, progress and self fulfillment, might just be an act in futility, akin to stopping a momentum driven train.
Just leave the Igbos alone!
No one fights and defeat a man pulled and pushed by an unseen force.
No one goes into a battle with a man whose weapons are carved and fabricated by God without getting bruised, defeated and shamed.
Those arms, those tongues, those eyes etc raising at different times against the Igbos in cold blood, will always have bloody nose to show for it.
They are great and highly steep mountain, climbing it without caution and wisdom leaves one with a broken waist.
Leave the Igbos alone! The world is too big to accommodate all! Flap your wings and allow others to flab theirs. That you cannot flab as much as I can, isn’t enough reason to ask for the cliping of my wings.
