Literature and Politics

  In this introductory paragraph, it may be valid to assert that Trump is the beloved father of Nigerian Christians, on the grounds that a father can do whatever he sees possible (and sometimes right) to save his beloved offspring—just as Trump claimed to do for Christians in Nigeria. The motive behind this piece of writing is that I have read a number of posts on Facebook about the so-called “Christian genocide” in Nigeria, and the comments beneath these posts—both from those trying to validate the information and those trying to invalidate it. What I observed from these posts, particularly in the comments, is that many Nigerian Christians are ill-informed, especially those living far away from the North. I can deduce from some of them (the Christians) that they are happy and want to precipitate the attack Mr. Trump threatened to carry out to “save” Christians from extremists/Islamists killing them, as he claimed. Here, I can extract two things that should be mentioned below. 👇 ...