The false moniker of saying “Youth” in Nigeria’s struggles
10 min readNov 9, 2020
Dj Switch is 29 years old. Falz the Bahd Guy is 30. Runtown is 31 and Seun Kuti is 37. The average life expectancy in Nigeria is 53.95 years old. Nigeria, as a loosely white-washed, outsourced, Freddie Lugard stitch-and-sew job, is 60 years old. The loud voices, often referred to as “Nigeria’s youth” are not young. They are simply having a poverty-forced and corruption-induced midlife crisis.
On October 10, 2020, the Nigerian Government — through its army and police officers — opened fire on citizens protesting officers that had…
