Eyeeen, Eyeeeen, eyeeeen! The cry of a new born filled the air. Mr Chidi ran into the delivery room, he was certain that the cry he heard was that of his child. His joy knew no bounds as he set eyes on his child, she was the sweetest, prettiest and most innocent soul he had ever seen. With a big smile and tears rolling down his cheeks he sang her a lullaby.
As days went by, Mr Chidi experienced the joy of fatherhood, the responsibility of making almost every decision for another soul was thrilling in it's own way. He felt fulfilled. On the seventh day, he named his daughter Flourish Chimamanda Chidi. He pronounced her an Igbo Christian girl.
Two months later Mr. and Mrs. Chidi lost their life in a ghastly motor accident, Flourish was lucky to have survived the accident. A month later she was adopted by a wealthy Muslim couple and was renamed Khadijah. Khadijah grew up to become a very devoted follower of Allah, she loved her religion and followed peace with all men.
Somewhere else in Nigeria, Hafsat is madly in love with James despite her parent's disapproval and has decided to marry him at the cost of disownment. She was in love and had her conviction that James was ''the one'' and that was all that mattered.
Dorcas met Abdul, fell in love with him, married him and decided to switch faith.
Kola met Chloe a British lady online, they decided to get married and Kola abandoned his faith, citizenship and ethnic affiliation and zooms off to his new life as British.
People switch religion everyday, Nigerians change their ethnic group just to get into the army, gain admission and so on. If we could switch religion or tribe so easily why do we attach too much relevance to it? Why do we kill people because they do not belong to our faith or ethnic group? We do we deny people jobs, promotion, access, freedom etc because of a tribe and religion that was chosen and gifted to us by our parents. Come to think of it we were all once like that little girl that was birthed in the beginning of this story, we were first HUMAN before we became Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo.
We were first HUMAN before we became, Muslim, Christian, traditional worshipper, Buddhist, Atheist or whatever religion we practice.
We were first HUMAN before we were categorized into black or white and we must learn how to treat each other as HUMAN rather than as a tribe, religion or race. The day the whole recognizes that we are all running the same race, and we all belong to the one race, one culture, one tribe, one religion, ''THE HUMAN RACE'' that day we'll all learn how to coexist as one big family and we'll start living.
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