Thompson: Nigeria Has Potential To Be The Model African Nation

Peter Ladi Thompson is a strategic analyst on national and global security issues. He is a bridge-builder among the various expressions of faith in Nigeria and has made presentation at the UN Track III program and at the US Congress Auditorium on Policy Upgrades of Nigerian inter-faith dialogue platforms. He recently launched a new audio book titled: The Devil’s Arithmetic, where he tried to explain what Nigerians must do to create a model African nation. BISI ALABI WILLIAMS reports some of his thoughts.

What has happened to the dream of making Nigerian an African model state? 

NIGERIA was touted as the giant of Africa that would grow up to wipe away the shame of the past and model the future that would restore African dignity. After more than half a century, the woeful performance of Africa’s most populous nation has only strengthened the position of the supremacists. How could an African nation with such vast natural resources and human potential have missed it by so much? The failure of Nigeria as a modern State has been a devastating blow to the psyche of the African continent because it was a nation that showed such great promise in bridging the gap of development between the so-called first world and third world countries. 

Does Nigeria still have the capacity to deliver this kind of leadership?

  Why not? Nigerians seemed to have gotten it right with education and technology in the earlier years. So much so that it was the first black African country to build and successfully run a television station ahead of some European countries. It was also the first African country where the myth of white supremacy was dissolved to welcome all foreigners as equals. Even in its tattered state, Nigeria is still able to look non-Africans directly in the face to conduct the business of life without the traditional hang-ups that dog the steps of the colonial experience. It was Nigeria that gave pan Africanism a firm form of expression to soothe the wounded soul of the much-maligned history of the black continent. Yet the Nigerian nation has not delivered on its promises to Africa because something from within has always surfaced to turn the tide of progress on its head. For many decades scholars and philosophers alike assumed that the erratic behaviour was directly linked to the British colonial experience, but research has shown that it runs much deeper than that. 

In details, what exactly is wrong with Nigeria?

  There is absolutely nothing wrong with Nigeria, but there is obviously something wrong in Nigeria. The fault lines will not be found in its wonderful climate, diverse cultures nor rich mineral deposits, but they would be found buried deep within its people. It would take a forensic excavation of the Nigerian psyche to unearth the defects hiding in our racial memory. Behind all the bravado, grit and flashes of brilliance lies a gross defect that’s rooted deep in our primary identity. On exposure, the defects show up as an engineered flaw that’s constant in everyone that has shared the common African heritage in one form or the other. This conclusion is drawn from years of extensive research, deep study and meditative prayer.

   It is the central focus of a thesis dubbed the Devil’s Arithmetic. It is something that you have probably caught a glimpse of in the writings of W. E. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jnr, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kwame Nkrumah and believe it or not, the Holy Bible! 

  The Devil’s Arithmetic can only be described as a brilliant virus that was injected into the foundational program written for Africa and buried so deep that its is practically impossible to detect, but the good news is that this sublime malevolence can be named, captured and ejected from our system so that the glory of God will shine unhindered in the African continent. 

  At a first glance, it would appear ludicrous that anyone would suggest that a sociocultural virus could be planted so deep in the foundation of the “racial memory” of an entire continent. Some would venture to ask how such an engineered implant could be responsible for the colossal failures that are strewn across the African continent. Others might even scoff at the notion and label it as another conspiracy theory cooked up to explain away the monumental disorder that characterizes the black continent. Yet, the first witness that we will call to expose this evil virus resides in the open pages of the most common book in the world, the Bible.

How? 

   The Holy Bible contains the history of the Hebrew people and it is a reliable witness of the evidence we seek! The virus we speak of was injected into the Hebrew nation by the rulers of ancient Egypt. The sociocultural engineers of the ancient Egyptian civilization had mastered a self-replicating virus that was designed to reduce the Hebrew into a mere economic unit for the profit of ancient Egypt. The Holy Bible wisely neglected to describe the details of this brilliant but evil engineering process, but its handwriting is all over the Book of Exodus. 

   The concept behind this sociocultural engineering process succeeded so much that the Hebrews became automatons that were bred and fed to build and uphold the ancient Egyptian economy at no costs to the master race. The self-replicating virus worked with such efficiency that the Hebrew was kept in slavery for more than four hundred years before they were rescued. The workings of this virus was so effective that the successive generations of Hebrew automatons did not even have a true grasp of what freedom meant anymore. They instinctively would grumble and agitate for increased comfort, but could not articulate a visionary plan for liberty. 

  Even after their emancipation the virus had eaten so deep into their souls that one entire generation could not handle the burden of freedom. At a conservative estimate four to six million Hebrew slaves were liberated from Egypt, but only two of them were successfully liberated from the virus anew reconverted into free men. The others failed because the process of subjugation had eaten too deep into their souls but Joshua and Caleb somehow managed to beat the Devil’s Arithmetic. Ancient Egypt was a part of black Africa in those days and it might be a twist of poetic justice that it was the African world that first perfected the science of destroying the human soul to produce an economic unit of mass slavery. 

Just how vile or deadly can The Devil’s Arithmetic get? 

  Perhaps the vilest aspect of the Devils Arithmetic is its ability to impregnate the host with a virus that can self -replicate unaided for centuries. The satanic signature of this virus can be further confirmed when its overall effects are examined. The Devil’s Arithmetic is primed in such a way that it destroys the humanity in a man to reduce God’s creation into a zombie-like shell that exists to work and reproduce more slaves. The product retains the ability to emote within a reduced ambit while all creative functions are toned down. When God created man in His image we were given certain attributes that separate us from animals. The ability to conceptualize and create things stands out followed by the power of education to appreciate beauty, art, poetry, romance and music. 

How has this affected Nigeria?

   The true architect of modern Nigeria was a man called Tubman Goldie and it was he that first employed Frederick Lugard as a security guard in West Africa. The word amalgamation was introduced by Taubman Goldie and we became a British colony because of his efforts more than anything else. Very few Nigerians know that it was Taubman Goldie that sold about three quarters of Nigerian territory to the British for a princely sum of £865,000.00 plus some change on the 1st January 1900. Now take note, Taubman Goldie destroyed all his diaries and journals before his death and summoned all his children to his death – bed to place them under oath that no one would publish any of his papers that somehow survived his bonfire. 

  To ensure complete obedience the architect that designed Nigeria put a curse over his children should they dare to publish his dark secrets. What did he mix into the foundation of Nigeria that he did not want our citizens to discover? The real secret that Goldie took to his grave was the details of the Devils Arithmetic that was injected into the Nigerian foundation, that self-replicating virus that is guaranteed to keep men in slavery for at least four hundred years. Even for all these facts the Devils Arithmetic is hidden so deep that its horrors cannot easily be comprehended. The Lynch Letter is perhaps the most articulate capture of the Devils Arithmetic that can be produced to expose the details of the workings of that virus. 

To what do we owe this latest discovery?

   We must thank God for the Internet that has been a useful tool in the exposure of this document. Tons of denials have been produced and all sorts of authorities have questioned its validity, but no sane minded person will deny the evidence that is written in global history and the pages of Scripture. 

  The articulate process described in the Lynch Letters is a perfect fit! Purportedly written in 1712, the Lynch letter is credited to a plantation owner in the West Indies whose slaves were so well processed that he was invited to Virginia by white slave owners to teach them the secrets of his success. He started out by promising them that his method was a tried and tested methodology that would guarantee them nothing less than 300 years of self replicating servitude from the African slaves. The details that God refused to write in the Bible were then spelt out in shocking details. Through the Lynch letters we are able to see how the virus works to replicate it-self like cancerous cells. 

  The African needs to read the Lynch letter because it exposes the deep rooted machinery of mass slavery that replicates itself to produce dehumanized economic units. Until the Devil’s Arithmetic is exposed and remedied, Nigeria is not likely to develop its full potentials as God designed it. Africa will forever struggle against insurmountable odds until the Devil’s Arithmetic is exposed and neutralized completely because it is impossible to celebrate victory over a malignant cancer until every single malignant cell is destroyed.