This is what the Nigerian Rapper wrote on his website titled "God Forbid We Don't"
Does it make you angry? Does it rile you to see
your country portrayed as poor and suffering and full of struggle? It burns you,
does it not? To have some foreigner- who knows nothing of your history and pain,
of the stories that flow within your blood- to have this foreigner come in and
tell your story? Is it not the height of disrespect and insensitivity? Does it
not chafe against the thick skin you have grown to cover your other
wounds?
Does it not make you angry? We should wax
sanctimonious about national pride being slighted. We should vent our
displeasure online. We should occupy something. Because God forbid the truth
ever be told about what things really are. God forbid a stranger reminds us
about those things we choose to ignore every day.
God forbid we ever face the truth about ourselves.
God forbid we do not go on the internet and rail about how our country is being
cast in bad light. God forbid we do not talk about how there is a small minority
which lives better than portrayed. God forbid we do not ignore truth one more
time. God forbid we don’t.
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