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When Election Challenged Their Birthright, White People Attacked Democracy
GOP, Trump refuse to accept changing demographics
Nigeria, the land of my birth, is a very complicated country. The most populous country (190 million people) in Africa is a former British colony divided by Christianity and Islam and featuring about 200 different ethnic groups all squeezed together and trying to form a nation.
Not surprisingly, the country has been ridden with ethnic conflicts in the past. There are three major ethnic groups which vie for power in Nigeria: the Yoruba, the Igbo and the Hausa-Fulani. During the early years of Nigeria, the Hausa-Fulani group managed to wrangle control through political maneuvering and military juntas. And it was like that for a long time, Nigeria’s leadership was dominated by the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group. Current President Muhammadu Buhari is also from that ethnic group and ruled as a military dictator in the 1980s.
Born to rule
I remember having long conversations with my dad who often said the Hausa-Fulani dominated Nigeria’s political leadership because they believed they were destined to rule the country.
But now living in America, I’m beginning to see the same attitude among white people, especially white men. White…
