HIVE OPEN MIC WEEK 119- NIGERIA: THE COUNTRY WITH POTENTIAL(AN ORIGINAL)

Good day, fellow hivers.

This is Hive Open Mic week 119 and the theme for the week is 'Prejudice.'

Upon seeing the theme, I had a hard time figuring out a song that went perfectly with the theme. Just today, I was discussing the state of my country Nigeria with some of my guys and one of the topics that came up was the incessant tribalistic and religious killings going on in the country, mostly in the Northern part of the country.

While the discussion was going on, I remembered a song I wrote towards the end of 2020 for an online Instagram contest where we were asked to write a song depicting the state of Nigeria at the time following the protests that occured at the time. The title of the song is "Nigeria: The country with potential."

The idea for the song was borne out of the idea that I had heard all my life that Nigeria was the giant of Africa, a mine of countless resources. Yet, the current state of the country does not depict that fact. The verse of the song addresses the fact that the country is killing its own citizens due to the religious and tribal divides. This is ridiculous in my opinion, and I think any sane person would agree with me. Anyways, it's the whole helpless feeling I had when I wrote the song that I transferred into ok the soul of the song.

I hope you like it.