By Jaye Gaskia
I have borrowed the title of my piece today from the title of one of the most significant films made in recent time; ’12 years a slave’. For if it was through that the main character of the epic film based on historical fact was captured as a free man and sold for 12 years into slavery; then it can be said that it is also through of the people of this country called Nigeria. We were once free peoples, before contact with Europe, before the slave trade, before colonialism, and before the flag independence that thrust within a global pecking order not within our capacity to influence or control. What is even more apt because of the symbolism of the parallelism involved is that for being free people we were captured and bound into a nation which for a hundred years has remained a gigantic failure........
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