Nigeria, Feb. 27 -- Many Nigerians fantasize about the Western World. While the more affluent Nigerians have been able to turn their fantasies into reality by visiting the Western countries and spending considerable time there, many other Nigerians have had to do with the often lavish and laundered offerings of globalization to count the stars over European and American skies.

There are also many Nigerians who today live permanently in different Western countries. Not for them is any suggestion of returning home.

Historical record and archives suggest that this obsession with the West has a long and sometimes dark history. Indeed, far from the suggestion that Nigerians we're the first to shamelessly roll over and pant after the West, th...