Inferiority complex. A disease in the African mind.

Recently I was in pessu market in Warri, Delta state. Was walking by when I heard a woman commenting on the fact that the ongoing road project made the market look better and a man replied that; "oyibo don enter town na".

The statement struck me . We go to the white man's land ona steady basis and we are barely noticed, but just because a white man is part of an ongoing road project that automatically means that the road will be standard.

Looking at the present African society we tend to uphold anything foreign and white a right, and black as barbaric. We've abandoned our beliefs and culture as inferior and embrace theirs as modern and true.

When the white men first came to Africa, they brought their God's with them , and slowly but surely a larger percentage of the continent are either Christian or Muslim. Then they brought their language, teaching us how to speak in their tongue. They brought their culture, teaching us how to dress, eat, and behave in the white man's way. They rewrite our history, making it seem as if Africa began when the white men came.

But all these happened because we let it happen. And we did that by accepting foreign products as original and local products as fake, by believing we can not be as good as them , so we settle for less, by adopting all their modes of dressing, music, culture, and others. Though most of the credits for the amazing tech today goes to the white man, but they also get the credits for a lot of social vices.

We revere white men thinking over our own philosophies . We as Africans need to start believing in ourselves, we need to show them that we can do way better than what they think of us, we should not be ashamed of our culture, heritage, skin color and beliefs.

White movies, products, people, ideas are more valued bye Africans. The gap between black and white is still wide. They brought a lot of things and we accepted them. We as Africans need to start thinking and doing things the right way. We should uphold our cultural heritage and defeat the demon called; inferiority complex.