Nigeria, July 31 -- Nigeria is in a flux and so are the ethnic nationalities that constitute it. The colonial enterprise cobbled people from disparate entities together and christened them Nigeria as fancied by Flora Shaw, the girlfriend of Baron Fredrick John Dealtry Lugard, the enforcer-in-chief of the colonial agenda. Colonialism ruptured the lives of the colonized in perpetuity. The Urhobo people were among the "tribes" albeit not of "the primitive tribes of the lower Niger" that were tenanted in the Nigerian house built by Lugard in 1914. Our ancestors were still savoring the never ending sweet memory of their triumph over Benin some centuries earlier when they first heard of the disturbing echoes of colonialism.

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