Author: Ndidi Uwechue

Ndidi Uwechue is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer and a Pro-Social Advocate. Her personal mission is to use every means available "To produce a safer and more caring Nigeria". She writes from Abuja.
Opinion: The White Man’s Ice Cream Is Better than the Black Man’s – A Preference for All Things Foreign
Africa, News, Nigeria

Opinion: The White Man’s Ice Cream Is Better than the Black Man’s – A Preference for All Things Foreign

26th September 2019 This is a worldwide phenomenon. Black people seem happiest when we give over our money to someone who is not from our own community. I will give an illustration from an article by an African American that I came across about ten years ago but which I can no longer find, so as to give the originator due credit. It is, The White Man's Ice Cream Is Better than The Black Man's Ice Cream, and the tale goes like this: A White man and A Black man bought the very same vanilla ice cream from the very same factory and both men set up separate shops in the Black community. Now, Black people KNOW that anything from a non-Black person is always better, so automatically Black people bought ice cream from the White man. But very very few Black people bought ice cream from the Bl...
Opinion: Can’t we Just be Normal?
Nigeria

Opinion: Can’t we Just be Normal?

I regularly hear words such as, "Our great country" or "We can be great again" in reference to Nigeria. Such words make me wonder what the speaker means by "great". Plus, for us to be "great again", it implies that Nigeria was once great, and if so, when in our history of 105 years was Nigeria ever great? From amalgamation to form Nigeria in 1914, and up to 1960, Nigeria was colonised by Britain but is it not strange for a people to say that when their land was occupied by a foreign power, their country was "great"? Today, "great" countries are those with enviable engineering technologies and they are able to manufacture all sorts of high precision and technically complex objects such as airplanes, ships, space rockets, trains and high speed railway systems, factory machinery, medical e...