A post on X recently declared: “In everything you do in Nigeria make sure you’re not friends with a Yoruba person… one misunderstanding and all your secrets become public news.”
This kind of blanket statement isn’t just lazy — it’s harmful. Reducing millions of people to a single negative trait is how prejudice grows legs and starts running wild. Conflicts, betrayals, misunderstandings — they’re human behaviors, not cultural DNA. Anyone from any group can be trustworthy or untrustworthy.
Pushing an entire ethnic group into a villain box doesn’t protect anyone; it only deepens divides we’re already struggling to mend. Nigeria has enough problems — adding tribal fear-mongering to the pile is not the solution.
— The Red Flags
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