Made In Nigeria Mantra: The Way Forward

euronation (58)in #nigeria • 7 years ago (edited)

Hello Steemians! Welcome to Euronation!

Today, i will be focusing on Nigeria as a country, Nigerians as people and Nigerians as compatriots! Do not mix it up that because someone is a citizen of a country then the person is a patriotic. Patriotism is beyond citizenship by birth or by migration.

As a people, we are intelligent and gifted. Hardly is there anything we cannot do. When you mention world movers, Nigerians are always there. This suggests we are dedicated and hardworking.

For a while now, there has been this continuous chant that made in Nigeria products should be embraced by all Nigerians. This, according to experts, will help the country greatly. This will move Nigeria market forward and encourage mass manufacturing of many products. This will drastically reduce the rate of unemployment in the country. It will also make many Nigerians employers of labour and thereby creating population of entrepreneurs.

You will agree with me that we have amazing products in the market. We have good leather shoes, bags. We have good and beautiful textiles. We are also creative in mixing textiles and leathers together to create amazing and beautiful sandals, ear ring and bags.

Nigerians are really creative and very industrious. We are always ready to try new things, new possibilities and we are goal driven. If you have been to African markets, especially Nigerian markets, you will agree with me that we are creative.

I still believe best leather shoes are in Nigeria. You can try visit Aba market, Onitsha market to see beautiful leather designs.

By now, you will be asking yourself, where is this heading! Yes, this is heading towards our attitudes as Nigerians towards our own products.

How many Nigerians can use Nigerian products and be proud? When last did you hype Nigeria products on any social media to promote it? When last did you encourage someone to buy Nigeria products for supposed 'English party'?

Tokenization is the new thing in the world today and all countries are adopting it and some are coming out with their own tokens. These tokens are being adopted massively by Nigerians which is a good thing because it is investment. But the idea behind this topic came up when a fellow Nigerian introduced us to another platform where we can buy an ICO. To my surprise, the platform was immediately rejected simply because its name looks like that of Yoruba people's (Yoruba is a tribe in Nigeria). I had to dig deep to understand who owns the platform. Amazingly, no single Nigerian in their team. I was just sad and felt helpless. I asked myself, can't Nigerians create token and sell ICO?

We need to understand that we need to promote our own products, we need to support our people. We need to buy Nigeria to grow Nigeria. We need to support ourselves. The way we carry our products, advertise them to the world is the way they will help us take it.

Patriotism is supporting a promising investment by fellow countryman. Rome was not built in a day. So we need to start now.

This quickly reminds me of Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon where he argued that we are Blacks according to our skin but Westerners in thinking. This kind of thinking relegates every African ideas as either barbaric or inferior.

We need to think big and understand that the growth of our people depend solely on us. Nobody will promote our own products for us except we embrace it ourselves.

Let's change our orientations about our people. We are great people and that is why we do great things.

Thanks for reading.

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