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(By Nkechi Bianze) -
Part 1:
Between 1996-1997, I was in Primary 4.
I did my first term primary 4 in a school at Isolo, Lagos.
Between 1996-1997, I was in Primary 4.
I did my first term primary 4 in a school at Isolo, Lagos.
I remember getting there to
notice that all the three top positions in class had been colonized by three
boys, who held on to them like those positions were their birthrights.
There was also another new
student in class.
There were some common factors
between me and this other new student.
1. We were both girls.
2. We were both from outside Lagos. While I came from Delta State, she came from Anambra State.
1. We were both girls.
2. We were both from outside Lagos. While I came from Delta State, she came from Anambra State.
I don’t know whether Lagos
residents still live in this sort of delusion. But in those days, many Lagos
residents actually had the complex that Lagos was the London of Nigeria. Many
of them believed that everyone who lives outside Lagos lives in a village, and
is not as civilized as them Lagos residents. And even those who lived in Lagos
ghettos, swamps and gutter houses also lived in same delusion. 😏
