BWALA INTERVIEW: Open Letter To Mehdi Hasan!

The Interview Video.

Dear Mehdi Hasan,

This letter may or may not get to you. If it does, I hope it finds you well. Your interview with Daniel Bwala practically set the Nigeria social media space on fire. As your eyes go over these lines-if indeed this letter does find you, your mind may be reeling afresh in recall of the trauma your Nigerian guest put you through. Yes, trauma because your eyes may wonder whether you had a human or an animal before you in that interview.
As your eyes ran over those printed facts with dates and you confronted those words owner with his own words, which he beamed with smiles while he disowned them all, you almost could be smitten with a heart attack by those 'legendarically' shameful denials. You confirmed this with three very heavy breaths.Thank God you survived. May you never see evil again Mehdi.

However, something is critically important and it is of critical importance that we make it well understandable to you and to the world. What you faced in that interview is not a representation of Africans. It is a representation of Africans problem. Tragic personalities depict what Africans are struggling to overcome, not who Africans have become. Unfortunate characters tell the stories of who Africans fight, not who Africans are.

Except you have disciplined your mind to know every race has its own sorts and kinds, what I saw you confronted with in that interview is terrible enough to make you conclude and say "'black'people are not humans".  Please build up well inside not to see it so my brother. I have a strong feeling you are already so well built up though. For the world of billions readers still, this needs being written.

Africans are great people. We are humans. We are graced, blessed, talented and honourable people. But we have a problem or two that have proven too difficult for all our fathers to solve. The worst of us have always conquered and ruled the best of us. That's the small problem. The big problem is, when they do, they make the world erroneously see themselves as the representation of who we, the rest of good African people are -a serious problem that has badly repressed everything called "goodness" in this awesome continent of  very great people. On behalf of over 200million  Nigerians and about 1.2billion other Africans, I want to thank you, Mehdi, for staging that interview that better again showed the world the true nature of Africans' problems but not the nature of Africans. That's perhaps one of the most important things in the world now all the world people should understand. One day, 'good' will conquer 'evil' in Africa. Thank you Mehdi.

Adeagbo Emmanuel. Nigeria.