Indeed, We Are All Heroes By Charles Ogbu

Defeated in a war we fought to survive, dehumanized, stripped of our jobs, our assets, our right to human dignity and condemned to live in a state of perpetual poverty and penury with no govt presence other than Police and Army checkpoints, but like the Phoenix, we rose from the ashes and here we are, conquering the arena like Spartacus. 

WE ARE ALL HEROES 

As far back as 1945 in the Northcentral Nigerian city of Jos and 1953 in the city of Kano, long before independence, we were subjected to two major pogroms by our Arewa Northern neighbors. Thousands of us were slaughtered. Thousands more were displaced. Yet, we refused to remain dead.

WE ARE ALL HEROES 

Not even the ethnic cleansing we suffered after the 1966 coup was able to keep us down. A coup was carried out by soldiers from Igbo, Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, Tiv, and Esan ethnic groups but it was tagged an Igbo coup even…