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What has the Lugardist state actually accomplished in its century of existence?
It has destroyed our sense of community and atomized us into the Hobbesian condition of a war of everyone against everyone‘ in the ruthless struggle for money to buy what it has brainwashed us to consider the good life‘; a condition of chronic insecurity, of continual fear and danger of violent death‘—as from accidental discharge‘ from the guns of its policemen; or from its rampaging soldiers, like at Odi, or Zaki-Biam and other places, or from assassin‘s bullets targeted even at such big winners in its system as Kudirat Abiola, Alfred Rewane, Alex Ibru, Bola Ige, Harry Marshall, A.K. Dikibo, etc in the last decade; a condition where life has been solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short‘ for everyone—even for Generals like Bisalla, Vatsa, Shehu Musa Yar Adua, and Chief MKO Abiola, let alone for the APO Six and countless ordinary victims of the police and armed robbers.
Thus, even without Nigeria‘s disintegration, we have been victims of misery, neocolonialism and perpetual war inflicted on us by the Lugardist state itself.
Lugardism, UN Imperialism and the prospect of African power
Chinweizu
