We compelled our governments to fund ANC’s activities within and outside Nigeria. Scholarships were provided for Black South African students to study in our universities and polytechnics… We, students, ensured that Nigeria became a home away from home for South African students by personally hosting them at our own expenses. We contributed parts of our pocket money and scholarship stipends to support the ANC by producing, reproducing, and circulating ANC documents, posters and materials throughout Nigeria.
There is every ground for me to charge the African National Congress (ANC) to the International Court of Human Conscience and the African Court of Ubuntu for the ongoing afrophobia and xenophobia in South Africa. That, I will do.
ANC did not enlighten me about apartheid. Nor the liberation struggles in South Africa. My secondary British teacher, “Titomthy”, did. He read the abridged editions of EA Ritter’s Shaka Zulu and Alan Paton’s Cry, The Beloved Country to us.
Ritter’s Shaka Zulu introduced me to pre-colonial Southern Africa. I greatly admired Shaka Zulu’s personality; his wisdom, audacity, unshakable confidence, war strategies, and heroism. But I was unhappy with the unnecessary wars he waged, the political upheaval he caused, and the mass migration that Mfecane ignited.
