The Nigerian Dream

As far back as I remember, my country has always wanted to be better and a wise man once said to me “the average Nigerian Teenager has a confused personality”. I’ve tried to figure out what he meant by that, the only conclusion I ever came to was the fact that we always try to be like “the white man” (I’m not racist) , so I was in a bus the other day and a lady was talking to someone on the phone and she mentioned that the bus stopped to get “gas”, now the average Nigerian would think she meant “cooking gas” which was really awkward because in the actually sense she was supposed to say “petrol”… The Nigerian Dream

We are all familiar with the phrase “the American dream” a rapper was actually called that a while back i think it was NAS, but that’s a different story. Ever since I was little I was made to believe the Nigerian Dream was “2020” something political, they call it “vision 2020” and to them “the government” this was every Nigerian’s dream… The Nigerian Dream

Each time I walk through the streets of where ever I am at that moment, it could be Awka, Lagos, Abuja, you get the picture yea? Anyway, each time I walk through the street I see a lot of people with different dreams, I mean to them “The Nigerian Dream” means something different, to that carpenter constructing stools for the woman that sells tomatoes at the local market, and to that kid that has just one school uniform and goes straight to his mother’s shop to help her sell stuff so she can go home to take care of the rest of his 5 siblings, because he’s the only one they could afford to send to school, the Nigerian Dream means a totally different thing.

There is beauty in the struggle…

You see my point is the dream shouldn’t mean the same thing to everybody, but somehow it’s centralized on polities The Nigerian Dream, to be one of the top 20 largest economies in the world, probably doesn’t mean anything to the boy that has to sleep under the bridge of Lagos just because he’s parents are dead and he can’t afford a room. Or to the girl that was pushed into prostitution because she didn’t want to starve to death

Let’s change the concept of the “Nigerian Dream”, let’s make it our dreams and may God bless our hustle… The Nigerian Dream, peace

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