NIGERIAN DREAM

“Here you can leave your car outside in the street, even forget to lock it, and it will still be there in the morning. You can leave your stereo on the dashboard and a smart bag on the seat, and nothing will happen. Women happily travel on the metro with their wallets clearly visible at the top of an open handbag; men will stick their mobile phone in the back pocket of their jeans in a crowded carriage entirely confident that no one will steal it. People are always nice and friendly and they keep their promises. If you order something in a store and they say it will take two weeks to deliver, they will always phone you if it arrives early, and nine times out of ten it does arrive early. You never see any litter anywhere, not even at Terminus, which handles two million commuters a day.”

This is my Nigerian Dream.

When I can tell my child “Because this is Nigeria, you have to obey all the rules.” I don’t care what is happening, I don’t care what I am seeing, even if I get rubbed this night, I would still be believing this.

Even if I die this night, I would wake up on the other side not lopsing this dream.

I believe this.

That’s the society we are trying to build in Jenta. We are starting here, it’s a revolution. You may not understand, you don’t have to. Just keep watching.
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