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by Henry Ekwuruke | |
Published on: Dec 2, 2005 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=6695 | |
Nigeria is my country Yes my country indeed I grew up to find that I was in Nigeria They told me I was a Nigerian. I believed it and celebrated it I grew up to know that we are a great people United as a nation in diversity Diversity in all things Culture, tradition, language Dressing, resources, environment and food People too, virtually in all things, I thought it was only Igbo people; my people were in this land Even my people tried to be diverse But I tried to understand them Bind them together and Make them one in my heart Hausa, Yoruba, Efik, Tiv, Fulani, Igbo Edo, Ibibio etc. A people as their name are so diverse The people in one country, yet diverse in all things I quarried myself, Indeed I did Can this people be one? What brought them together? Can they survive as a people? Can the above questions mean that unity is another name for diversity? The answers are ok unity is in culture Unity in their dressing, unity in their sharing Unity in diversity is practicalized in Nigeria I concluded, Unity works in diversity It is the handwork of creator! « return. |