I have just been informed that some African countries have joined the #blacklivesmatters world protest. Protests erupted following the death of George Floyd, an African American who was brutally murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white American Police in May.
The nationwide protests started from the Minnesota State of America and have since spread across several other countries in different parts of the world.
George Floyd deserves this protest, yet, Africans should cover their faces in shame for involving themselves in such hypocrisy.
blacklivesmatters, yet South Africa carried out xenophobic attacks against fellow Africans during which many lost their lives and properties, particularly Nigerians in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Hundreds of Africans were brutalized, burnt alive, slaughtered, only because the South African citizens wanted them out of their country and of course, there was no single protest from my African brothers and sisters who are now on the streets in support of the #blacklivesmatter protests.
The question is, don’t their lives matter?
Since 2014 till date, Black Africans occupying the Eastern part of Nigeria (Biafrans) were brutalized by same skin soldiers who by the order of the Nigerian government kidnapped, killed, brutalized unarmed protesters across the of Biafra region; the Onitsha head bridge killings on 1st December 2015, National High school massacre on 9th February 2016, Igweocha massacre on February 20, 2017, Nkpor massacre on 30th May 2016, the almighty python dance operation in Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia, from 10th September to 14th September 2017, to mention but few.
No less than 20 persons were killed in each of these incidents by the Nigerian soldiers, yet there were no protests? The question is, don’t their lives matter?
Thousands of Christians are dying on a daily basis in the Southern Kaduna, Northern part of Nigeria, in the hands of the vicious Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists without government intervention which means it’s all deliberately done.
There has not been any form of protest? And I ask again, don’t their lives matter?
My fellow black people who are protesting #blacklivesmatters should not forget that they have many problems to solve within themselves.
My advice is, charity begins at home. The way you make your bed is the way you lay on it. Until Africans prove that they matter, they can never matter even in heaven. Hypocrisy can not save Africans, but reality.
Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News
