The Killer Healer

Colonization is never philanthropic but exploitative. It is a game of a wake of vultures. The colonized are treated as inferior humans, whose lives matter not in the justice system of the colonizers. It is aimed at invading, exploiting and enslaving a People living in distant lands. It is slavery in its entirety. It is a game of greed, played by thieves, to invade the home of a People living in distant land for continues exploitation, domination, occupation, depopulation, incarceration and misleading orientations. The best education you can get from colonialists is the type that will continually cage you in the dungeon of mediocrity. Indoctrination in the place of education.

In 1846, the first group of Christian missionaries led by Rev. Hope Waddell arrived Calabar from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland Mission. They saw on their arrival the love and the dedication with which the Calabar people worship a twin deity know as Ying and Yang, in whose honour Calabar people celebrated birth of twins as a blessing from the deity. In order to exploit ethnic and religious identity in favour of christianity, the white Christian missionaries demonized the birth of twins and labeled it a bad omen to a society.

The Calabar people in trusting the wrong group fell to the psychological trap of the white missionaries, killing twin babies and turning against their native twin deity. The news of twin babies being evil gradually spread to other regions and the wholesale slaughter of twins became widespread in many African regions.

In September 11, 1876, Mary Slessor, a Scottish lady, who was a tactful emissary among the rank of the colonialists arrived in Calabar. She played the good corps role to win the hearts of the native people in favour of colonialists. After Christianity has infiltrated and gained stability in the region, Mary Slessor was made to play a heroic role to stop the killing of twins. When Southern Nigeria became a British Protectorate on January 1, 1900, she was compensated and made the first female Magistrate in the British Empire that committed a holocaust in Nigeria under the rule of Frederick Lugard.

My position, the same group that took the unholy glory of stopping the killing of twins were the same group which creepingly planted in the hearts of Africans the notion of killing twin babies by demonizing twin babies in order to get rid of the Calabar twin god in favour of Christianity.

On 2nd February, 1835, Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay addressed the British Parliament saying:

“I have traveled across the length and breadth of Africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage. And therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Africans think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”.

Until we learn to go back to our originality and discard every of our oppressors suggestions, we shall keep experiencing a step forward and ten steps backward, for the death that killed the mother hen would not sit to watch her chicks grow.

– Ambassador Ezewele Cyril Abionanojie is the author of the book ‘The Enemy Called Corruption’ and an Award Winner ‘Best Columnist of The Year’ ‘Giant in Security Support’ ‘The Nigerian Statesmanship-Integrity and Productivity’ among others. He is the President of Peace Ambassadors Global.