[Music]
there was a country Teno GB route and I
for one think he knew what he was
talking about because to say there
wasn’t to say that Nigeria is the
mistake of 1914 that Nigeria is am a
geographical expression is to discount
1920 and the formation of the Nigerian
National Democratic Party by Herbert
McAuley to fight for the rights of
people he considered to be his
countrymen it is to discount 1933 and
the formation of the Nigerian youth
movement by people like Ernest e—coli
from today’s by elsa hecho Davis from
today’s Lagos and you’re itself on
today’s cross River to fight for the
rights of people they consider to be
their countrymen
it is a discount 1944 and the formation
of the National Council of Nigeria and
the Cameroon’s the MCMC was formed by
students to bring together the two
political heavyweights of that time
Nnamdi Azikiwe and Herbert McAuley to
bring them together in one organization
so they could more effectively fight for
the independence of a country these
young people consider to be their the
same Nigeria magia graphical expression
is a discount the constitutional
conferences that took place in 1951 in
1953 in 1957 1958 when Nigerians from
all walks of life came together sat down
to negotiate and I agreed the terms
under which they were prepared to live
together
it is the discounts above are cuts off
our Bala wahoo in the early 60s took a
trip to the United States and what he
saw there made him think to himself that
if this nation with its trajectory if
this country can become a nation than
Nigeria can do it to and from the states
he wrote a letter back to a friend in
Nigeria and a letter he sent from today
henceforth I consider myself a Nigerian
and nothing else
thus a Nigerian my geographical
expression is to discount the fact that
for a generation
young men and women Nigeria was an
aspiration a dream that independence was
the fruit of decades of struggle so when
she no HIV said there was a country who
was expressed in nostalgia for a dream
that did not come to pass
not very different from the sentiments
expressed by Anthony and Nehru who as a
young man he was a young man who in the
Parliament in 1953 moved the motion for
self-government governance in 1956 but
as a much older man later in his life he
wrote this is not the Nigeria of our
dreams I know this I know that this is
not a Nigeria of the dreams of
Archibeque generation I know this I know
that there was a coup on the 15th of
January 1966 that triggered a
catastrophic series of events for this
country I know this I know there was a
pogrom in May in July in September of 66
where men women and children were killed
pregnant women had their bellies split
open their babies ripped out and killed
because of their ethnicity I know this I
know that there was a war a brutal war
when millions of children starve to
death
innocent men women and children killed
until today there is no plaque there is
no wall there is no memorial anywhere to
remember them we don’t even know what
their names were we don’t even know how
many people actually died some of them
we don’t even know where they are buried
I know this I know that this Giants of
Africa stumbled right out of the
starting blocks and almost collapsed I
know this I can even understand why it
happened because our founding fathers
Nnamdi Azikiwe Obafemi owaru amaru
bellow our founding fathers were really
and truly different in fact the fact
that those three people were able to
walk together some watts to bring
Nigeria into independence is testament
so they are belief in the viability of
190
that belief was virtually the only thing
they had in common they were really and
truly different a mother Bella was born
in northern Nigeria raised in northern
Nigeria northern Nigeria was his cosmos
the first time he went to legal shows in
his mid-forties my famiiy i wonder was
born in the western nigeria raised lived
there all his life that was what he knew
of the truth the one now slightly
different was Zeke he came from the east
but he was born in the north did part of
his education in the East completed it
in the West worked in the West did his
politics in the West he was the most
cosmopolitan so it is very logical that
the concept of one Nigeria of a
monolithic Nigeria of a Nigeria where
any Nigerian could represent every
Nigerian regardless of tribe or faith
it’s logical that it came naturally to
him because that what is your cultural
background a Matabele who had a slightly
different concept of one Nigeria to him
one Nigeria was a federation of the
existing region of the regions that
existed at the time because northern
Nigeria was his primary constituency so
he saw nature as a Federation of
northern Nigeria and all the other
regions of Nigeria relates in on an
equal but independent basis Obafemi
awana will had a slightly different idea
like a mother bellow he also didn’t see
he also didn’t see Nigeria as one
monolithic entity he saw Nigeria as
different groups but those groups were
not the regions above me I would also an
idea a federation of no ethnic
nationalities because the region he came
from all dominated by one ethnic group
the euro birth so he saw Nigeria as a
Federation of ethnic nationalities where
each major ethnic group would have its
own political unit from which it could
relate to the others on an equal footing
and when we became independent was the
vision of a mother below that I carried
the day because Nigeria became
independent as a Federation of the
existing regions but over time we have
evolved towards the vision of above Nia
all over because over time different
ethnic groups have began to agitate
for greater recognition at the federal
level and that is what has driven the
fragmentation of this country from a
federation of four regions to a
federation of 36 states and one Federal
Capital Territory what baffles me is
that individually who have evolved more
to a Zeke
today Nigerians are more cosmopolitan
than ever 60 years ago he may have been
odds defined in Nigeria and who was born
outside his place of origin lives
outside of the place of origin works
there has maybe one lost ties to his
place of origin but today if I were to
ask how many of you fit this profile so
many hands will go up now so many Zeke’s
sitting here in this room today which
begs the question if we have become more
similar over time why is our politics
still as divisive as it was 50 years ago
I can understand it 50 years ago it was
an accurate reflection of their social
cultural reality but as we have become
more similar why is our politics still
locked in the past there are many
reasons for this but I’ll give you two
one the bedtime stories we’ve all been
told for instance you’ve been told that
the ebu is killed the sedona you’re not
told that the Sedona was killed by major
Kaduna so what you’re told is that the
emus killed the Sedona you’re told that
the Yoruba has betrayed the emus you’re
not told that Obafemi a 100 was the
Commission our financing go on the
government during the war and it was
responsibility to evolve a fiscal
strategy for the Nigerian side in the
Civil War know what you’re told is that
the euro bands betrayed the emus you not
all that Maurice and Mohammed led the
army into Mustafa during the Civil War
it was under his watch that the asaba
moussaka accord know what you’re told is
that the alsophila mean murdered the
boots and so we keep seeing a social
reality through the blinkers of these
stories forces us to keep interpreting
current facts using models that were
invented 50 years ago so this is
them now I don’t care how cosmopolitan
you actually are well at a point in your
data points and you at some point in
your journey as a Nigerian in fact at
many points in your journey as a
Nigerian you will encounter the question
what is your state of origin and
attempting to answer that question will
take you straight back to 1966 but you
need to answer that question because it
gives you access to so many parts of
Nigeria and public life it is the answer
to that question now gets you an
admission in Nigerian public
universities it should get you a job in
the Nigerian civil service to get you
promoted it because it will determine
your consideration as a if you’re going
am I going to be appointed in minister
in this country it will determine your
decision about where to run for public
office in this country and therefore no
matter how you define yourself based on
your actual or bringing at some point
you have to accept a label that was
created by circumstances fifty years ago
and these factors ensure that as we
become more similar in fact politics
remains locked in the 50s and the 60s
now what can we do about this how can we
facilitate integration in this country
for one we have to tackle it directly
integration is not a by-product it does
not just happen
integration is unnatural it only happens
as a result of deliberate investment in
integration because there is no nation
on earth that is natural all nations are
the deliberate creation of men to
facilitate integration we have to
deliberately and consciously invest in
integration as Nigerians and there’s
certain aspects of integration we must
invest in one I’ll give you six because
of time one we have to invest in the
infrastructure of integration in the
things that actually connects us
physically like roots what to be
physically isolated is also to be
socially culturally isolated for
instance I cannot tell you the damage
the non-existence of
something as simple as the second Niger
bridge I cannot tell you the damage that
has done to the fabric of nationhood in
this country we can’t see everything
simply in terms of Nara and Kobo and
contributions of the GDP sometimes we
have to evaluate some of these things in
terms of their impact on a sense of
belonging for that sense of belonging is
as critical to Nigeria’s future as the
crude oil in the Niger Delta for this
reason we must consciously invest in the
infrastructure of integration things
like roads things like unity schools
things like the NY I see things like
sports nuga games the National Sports
Festival things like music and arts
things that naturally connect people any
government that is thinking seriously
about the future of this country has to
see these things as strategic
investments so we have to invest in the
economics of integration as a rule of
thumb whenever whenever people feel less
secure whenever they feel poorer they
tend to become more xenophobic so to
invest in security to invest in
environment economy to invest in growth
is not just to invest in growing the GDP
is also to invest in creating a climate
that is conducive to tolerance and
integration 3 we need to invest in the
body language of integration as
Nigerians we must become conscious of
the fact that we are living in a highly
charged political environment we’re
living in a space that is mined that is
fragmented by fall-forward fault lines
and that it weren’t any word carelessly
spoken or action carelessly taken can
provoke a traumatic an extreme reaction
from any section of this country and we
need to begin to invest in the language
that demonstrates our awareness that we
are citizens living in a fragile nation
it’s very important for we need to
invest in the stories of integration the
only stories wherever here is how the
emos kill the sadhana how they are
cifonelli kill the evils how do you
robos betray health
you never hear how the MA
Katsina went out of his way to save evil
during the program
you never hear of the Nigerian soldiers
that came in to be a fraud and was give
me a my giving water our food to the
children they saw you never hear boom
are all tini the answer for any man who
became the first meal or being a GU you
never hear of booze wah we need
elections in two state houses or
assembly in condo on Lagos you don’t
have these stories because they don’t
fit the mainstream narrative any
government that is interested in the
future of this country will be investing
in pushing those stories 5 you have to
invest in the morality of integration no
matter what your ideology or politics is
I don’t know what you think of Nelson
Mandela well you can take it away from
him that the fact that we have a
multiracial
and democratic South Africa today is a
direct result of his decision not to
take vengeance of the on the whites when
he had the opportunity that act was his
own investment in the unity and
integration of his country we need more
acts like that here in Nigeria we need
people who have suffered harm at the
hands of individuals members of other
religious and ethnic groups who make a
decision that when they have the
opportunity they will not take revenge
because this did for tact will take us
to a dangerous place as Mahatma Gandhi
said an eye for an eye a tooth for a
tooth will leave us both toothless and
blind also we need to take put you know
the the lady justysia
you mean she put the blindfold back on
her eyes so that justice in this country
is blind particularly so the ethnic and
religious background of the people that
stand before it people should pay for
their crime or whatever the reason if
you do the crime you should do the time
simple lastly we need to invest in the
politics of integration now those that
don’t want Nigeria have effectively
politicized their points of view over
the years we have developed the capacity
to politicize our ethnic and religious
differences but we have failed to
develop the capacity to politicize the
things we share in common and what are
these things we share in common what the
Nigerians have in common regardless of
faith or triumph I’ll tell you we have
bad roads and
we have new lights in common we have no
books in our schools in common no drugs
in our hospitals in common that is what
we all share poverty in so go to
profiting in Agoura corruption in
Middlebury corruption in leggins yet
while we’ve been able to build radical
populist fanatical movements over our
differences we have been unable to build
radical fanatical and populist movements
over our socio-economic similarities
because any objective analysis of the
facts will show you this that there is
no major ethnic group or religious group
in this country that has not produced a
political leader at some level of
government in this country which
suggests that what we are suffering
today has nothing to do with the village
the person comes from or the gods that
he worships and has everything to do
with the quality of his policy
prescriptions and his commitments to
executing them this is an issue that is
routinely neglected by those whose
politics is defined by identity now I
believe that if we are able to invest in
all these aspects of integration than
that dream that’s eluded the generation
of Chinua Achebe will become realizable
in ours officially this is where my
speech ends before I step off the stage
I would like to do a poem this poem is
titled the wall and the bridge if a
white man turned and called me nigger my
blood would boil in righteous anger for
the evil of discrimination is clearly
established when a white man tries to
treat me like rubbish but if alsace a
evils and greedy and crude and it will
say else as a haughty are rude and he
just as he Shakira moans die to D and s
that tells a Zulu there is no other way
if you rabbis declare it is owl or
nothing and we use federal character to
share everything so before you can even
smile and tell me welcome we must first
ask
when my father is from if those who were
settlers but now indigents say those who
are settlers can’t become indigent while
the Constitution says were all citizens
local governments keep issuing
certificates of origin in my brother’s
pub in my brother past john-boy can go
to uni because he is Steve and he’s not
canoeing and unimate has a quota for its
catchment area so he must go back to
Benny a week one more year if it’s ok to
say it’s not all kids of marry someone
just because they actually bury and that
every tribe should have its own side
we know then practicing a perfect if you
cannot buy land unless you’re in it see
I cannot find work unless you’re amazing
I cannot feel safe unless you’re amazing
how can we then say we’re not primitive
yet you go to London and get your
passport then settle wherever however
you want you stand there and fight for
equality welcome back and start to use
ethnicity
I don’t get the logic of thinking it’s
different to be tribalistic and then to
be racist if you’re happy to judge him
just hearing his name what about you
call it my friend is the same where
there is no courage to cross this divine
when there is no faith to look deep
inside and stop judging accents and son
limbs and dress in this fire were
quenching will only keep burning which
nation can stand divided in its people
how can one build on foundation so
brittle if we cannot see ourselves in
each other this journey ends here we’re
going no further for when God made man
he gave him no facial lacs he did not
make buggy
oh come on Angus as sure as a black man
is just like a white man no culture is
older and being human
[Applause]
[Music]
this is the truth until we accept it
our nation will stop along its Brooklyn
Street for the same things can bind us
that drive us apart for the wall and the
bridge
[Music]
you
there was a country Teno GB route and I
for one think he knew what he was
talking about because to say there
wasn’t to say that Nigeria is the
mistake of 1914 that Nigeria is am a
geographical expression is to discount
1920 and the formation of the Nigerian
National Democratic Party by Herbert
McAuley to fight for the rights of
people he considered to be his
countrymen it is to discount 1933 and
the formation of the Nigerian youth
movement by people like Ernest e—coli
from today’s by elsa hecho Davis from
today’s Lagos and you’re itself on
today’s cross River to fight for the
rights of people they consider to be
their countrymen
it is a discount 1944 and the formation
of the National Council of Nigeria and
the Cameroon’s the MCMC was formed by
students to bring together the two
political heavyweights of that time
Nnamdi Azikiwe and Herbert McAuley to
bring them together in one organization
so they could more effectively fight for
the independence of a country these
young people consider to be their the
same Nigeria magia graphical expression
is a discount the constitutional
conferences that took place in 1951 in
1953 in 1957 1958 when Nigerians from
all walks of life came together sat down
to negotiate and I agreed the terms
under which they were prepared to live
together
it is the discounts above are cuts off
our Bala wahoo in the early 60s took a
trip to the United States and what he
saw there made him think to himself that
if this nation with its trajectory if
this country can become a nation than
Nigeria can do it to and from the states
he wrote a letter back to a friend in
Nigeria and a letter he sent from today
henceforth I consider myself a Nigerian
and nothing else
thus a Nigerian my geographical
expression is to discount the fact that
for a generation
young men and women Nigeria was an
aspiration a dream that independence was
the fruit of decades of struggle so when
she no HIV said there was a country who
was expressed in nostalgia for a dream
that did not come to pass
not very different from the sentiments
expressed by Anthony and Nehru who as a
young man he was a young man who in the
Parliament in 1953 moved the motion for
self-government governance in 1956 but
as a much older man later in his life he
wrote this is not the Nigeria of our
dreams I know this I know that this is
not a Nigeria of the dreams of
Archibeque generation I know this I know
that there was a coup on the 15th of
January 1966 that triggered a
catastrophic series of events for this
country I know this I know there was a
pogrom in May in July in September of 66
where men women and children were killed
pregnant women had their bellies split
open their babies ripped out and killed
because of their ethnicity I know this I
know that there was a war a brutal war
when millions of children starve to
death
innocent men women and children killed
until today there is no plaque there is
no wall there is no memorial anywhere to
remember them we don’t even know what
their names were we don’t even know how
many people actually died some of them
we don’t even know where they are buried
I know this I know that this Giants of
Africa stumbled right out of the
starting blocks and almost collapsed I
know this I can even understand why it
happened because our founding fathers
Nnamdi Azikiwe Obafemi owaru amaru
bellow our founding fathers were really
and truly different in fact the fact
that those three people were able to
walk together some watts to bring
Nigeria into independence is testament
so they are belief in the viability of
190
that belief was virtually the only thing
they had in common they were really and
truly different a mother Bella was born
in northern Nigeria raised in northern
Nigeria northern Nigeria was his cosmos
the first time he went to legal shows in
his mid-forties my famiiy i wonder was
born in the western nigeria raised lived
there all his life that was what he knew
of the truth the one now slightly
different was Zeke he came from the east
but he was born in the north did part of
his education in the East completed it
in the West worked in the West did his
politics in the West he was the most
cosmopolitan so it is very logical that
the concept of one Nigeria of a
monolithic Nigeria of a Nigeria where
any Nigerian could represent every
Nigerian regardless of tribe or faith
it’s logical that it came naturally to
him because that what is your cultural
background a Matabele who had a slightly
different concept of one Nigeria to him
one Nigeria was a federation of the
existing region of the regions that
existed at the time because northern
Nigeria was his primary constituency so
he saw nature as a Federation of
northern Nigeria and all the other
regions of Nigeria relates in on an
equal but independent basis Obafemi
awana will had a slightly different idea
like a mother bellow he also didn’t see
he also didn’t see Nigeria as one
monolithic entity he saw Nigeria as
different groups but those groups were
not the regions above me I would also an
idea a federation of no ethnic
nationalities because the region he came
from all dominated by one ethnic group
the euro birth so he saw Nigeria as a
Federation of ethnic nationalities where
each major ethnic group would have its
own political unit from which it could
relate to the others on an equal footing
and when we became independent was the
vision of a mother below that I carried
the day because Nigeria became
independent as a Federation of the
existing regions but over time we have
evolved towards the vision of above Nia
all over because over time different
ethnic groups have began to agitate
for greater recognition at the federal
level and that is what has driven the
fragmentation of this country from a
federation of four regions to a
federation of 36 states and one Federal
Capital Territory what baffles me is
that individually who have evolved more
to a Zeke
today Nigerians are more cosmopolitan
than ever 60 years ago he may have been
odds defined in Nigeria and who was born
outside his place of origin lives
outside of the place of origin works
there has maybe one lost ties to his
place of origin but today if I were to
ask how many of you fit this profile so
many hands will go up now so many Zeke’s
sitting here in this room today which
begs the question if we have become more
similar over time why is our politics
still as divisive as it was 50 years ago
I can understand it 50 years ago it was
an accurate reflection of their social
cultural reality but as we have become
more similar why is our politics still
locked in the past there are many
reasons for this but I’ll give you two
one the bedtime stories we’ve all been
told for instance you’ve been told that
the ebu is killed the sedona you’re not
told that the Sedona was killed by major
Kaduna so what you’re told is that the
emus killed the Sedona you’re told that
the Yoruba has betrayed the emus you’re
not told that Obafemi a 100 was the
Commission our financing go on the
government during the war and it was
responsibility to evolve a fiscal
strategy for the Nigerian side in the
Civil War know what you’re told is that
the euro bands betrayed the emus you not
all that Maurice and Mohammed led the
army into Mustafa during the Civil War
it was under his watch that the asaba
moussaka accord know what you’re told is
that the alsophila mean murdered the
boots and so we keep seeing a social
reality through the blinkers of these
stories forces us to keep interpreting
current facts using models that were
invented 50 years ago so this is
them now I don’t care how cosmopolitan
you actually are well at a point in your
data points and you at some point in
your journey as a Nigerian in fact at
many points in your journey as a
Nigerian you will encounter the question
what is your state of origin and
attempting to answer that question will
take you straight back to 1966 but you
need to answer that question because it
gives you access to so many parts of
Nigeria and public life it is the answer
to that question now gets you an
admission in Nigerian public
universities it should get you a job in
the Nigerian civil service to get you
promoted it because it will determine
your consideration as a if you’re going
am I going to be appointed in minister
in this country it will determine your
decision about where to run for public
office in this country and therefore no
matter how you define yourself based on
your actual or bringing at some point
you have to accept a label that was
created by circumstances fifty years ago
and these factors ensure that as we
become more similar in fact politics
remains locked in the 50s and the 60s
now what can we do about this how can we
facilitate integration in this country
for one we have to tackle it directly
integration is not a by-product it does
not just happen
integration is unnatural it only happens
as a result of deliberate investment in
integration because there is no nation
on earth that is natural all nations are
the deliberate creation of men to
facilitate integration we have to
deliberately and consciously invest in
integration as Nigerians and there’s
certain aspects of integration we must
invest in one I’ll give you six because
of time one we have to invest in the
infrastructure of integration in the
things that actually connects us
physically like roots what to be
physically isolated is also to be
socially culturally isolated for
instance I cannot tell you the damage
the non-existence of
something as simple as the second Niger
bridge I cannot tell you the damage that
has done to the fabric of nationhood in
this country we can’t see everything
simply in terms of Nara and Kobo and
contributions of the GDP sometimes we
have to evaluate some of these things in
terms of their impact on a sense of
belonging for that sense of belonging is
as critical to Nigeria’s future as the
crude oil in the Niger Delta for this
reason we must consciously invest in the
infrastructure of integration things
like roads things like unity schools
things like the NY I see things like
sports nuga games the National Sports
Festival things like music and arts
things that naturally connect people any
government that is thinking seriously
about the future of this country has to
see these things as strategic
investments so we have to invest in the
economics of integration as a rule of
thumb whenever whenever people feel less
secure whenever they feel poorer they
tend to become more xenophobic so to
invest in security to invest in
environment economy to invest in growth
is not just to invest in growing the GDP
is also to invest in creating a climate
that is conducive to tolerance and
integration 3 we need to invest in the
body language of integration as
Nigerians we must become conscious of
the fact that we are living in a highly
charged political environment we’re
living in a space that is mined that is
fragmented by fall-forward fault lines
and that it weren’t any word carelessly
spoken or action carelessly taken can
provoke a traumatic an extreme reaction
from any section of this country and we
need to begin to invest in the language
that demonstrates our awareness that we
are citizens living in a fragile nation
it’s very important for we need to
invest in the stories of integration the
only stories wherever here is how the
emos kill the sadhana how they are
cifonelli kill the evils how do you
robos betray health
you never hear how the MA
Katsina went out of his way to save evil
during the program
you never hear of the Nigerian soldiers
that came in to be a fraud and was give
me a my giving water our food to the
children they saw you never hear boom
are all tini the answer for any man who
became the first meal or being a GU you
never hear of booze wah we need
elections in two state houses or
assembly in condo on Lagos you don’t
have these stories because they don’t
fit the mainstream narrative any
government that is interested in the
future of this country will be investing
in pushing those stories 5 you have to
invest in the morality of integration no
matter what your ideology or politics is
I don’t know what you think of Nelson
Mandela well you can take it away from
him that the fact that we have a
multiracial
and democratic South Africa today is a
direct result of his decision not to
take vengeance of the on the whites when
he had the opportunity that act was his
own investment in the unity and
integration of his country we need more
acts like that here in Nigeria we need
people who have suffered harm at the
hands of individuals members of other
religious and ethnic groups who make a
decision that when they have the
opportunity they will not take revenge
because this did for tact will take us
to a dangerous place as Mahatma Gandhi
said an eye for an eye a tooth for a
tooth will leave us both toothless and
blind also we need to take put you know
the the lady justysia
you mean she put the blindfold back on
her eyes so that justice in this country
is blind particularly so the ethnic and
religious background of the people that
stand before it people should pay for
their crime or whatever the reason if
you do the crime you should do the time
simple lastly we need to invest in the
politics of integration now those that
don’t want Nigeria have effectively
politicized their points of view over
the years we have developed the capacity
to politicize our ethnic and religious
differences but we have failed to
develop the capacity to politicize the
things we share in common and what are
these things we share in common what the
Nigerians have in common regardless of
faith or triumph I’ll tell you we have
bad roads and
we have new lights in common we have no
books in our schools in common no drugs
in our hospitals in common that is what
we all share poverty in so go to
profiting in Agoura corruption in
Middlebury corruption in leggins yet
while we’ve been able to build radical
populist fanatical movements over our
differences we have been unable to build
radical fanatical and populist movements
over our socio-economic similarities
because any objective analysis of the
facts will show you this that there is
no major ethnic group or religious group
in this country that has not produced a
political leader at some level of
government in this country which
suggests that what we are suffering
today has nothing to do with the village
the person comes from or the gods that
he worships and has everything to do
with the quality of his policy
prescriptions and his commitments to
executing them this is an issue that is
routinely neglected by those whose
politics is defined by identity now I
believe that if we are able to invest in
all these aspects of integration than
that dream that’s eluded the generation
of Chinua Achebe will become realizable
in ours officially this is where my
speech ends before I step off the stage
I would like to do a poem this poem is
titled the wall and the bridge if a
white man turned and called me nigger my
blood would boil in righteous anger for
the evil of discrimination is clearly
established when a white man tries to
treat me like rubbish but if alsace a
evils and greedy and crude and it will
say else as a haughty are rude and he
just as he Shakira moans die to D and s
that tells a Zulu there is no other way
if you rabbis declare it is owl or
nothing and we use federal character to
share everything so before you can even
smile and tell me welcome we must first
ask
when my father is from if those who were
settlers but now indigents say those who
are settlers can’t become indigent while
the Constitution says were all citizens
local governments keep issuing
certificates of origin in my brother’s
pub in my brother past john-boy can go
to uni because he is Steve and he’s not
canoeing and unimate has a quota for its
catchment area so he must go back to
Benny a week one more year if it’s ok to
say it’s not all kids of marry someone
just because they actually bury and that
every tribe should have its own side
we know then practicing a perfect if you
cannot buy land unless you’re in it see
I cannot find work unless you’re amazing
I cannot feel safe unless you’re amazing
how can we then say we’re not primitive
yet you go to London and get your
passport then settle wherever however
you want you stand there and fight for
equality welcome back and start to use
ethnicity
I don’t get the logic of thinking it’s
different to be tribalistic and then to
be racist if you’re happy to judge him
just hearing his name what about you
call it my friend is the same where
there is no courage to cross this divine
when there is no faith to look deep
inside and stop judging accents and son
limbs and dress in this fire were
quenching will only keep burning which
nation can stand divided in its people
how can one build on foundation so
brittle if we cannot see ourselves in
each other this journey ends here we’re
going no further for when God made man
he gave him no facial lacs he did not
make buggy
oh come on Angus as sure as a black man
is just like a white man no culture is
older and being human
[Applause]
[Music]
this is the truth until we accept it
our nation will stop along its Brooklyn
Street for the same things can bind us
that drive us apart for the wall and the
bridge
[Music]
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