Our enviable chaos
Our fantastically corrupt propensity
Our globally certified incompetence
Our preference for fast and easy wealth
Our act-first-think-later ‘philosophy’
Our leave-it-to-God religiosity
Our world-famous disdain for Science
Our unbreakable bond with ignorance
Our rabid aversion to Reason
Our impatience with the through and thorough
Our seed-eater’s improvidence
Our headless covenant with the here-and-now
Fifteen million Nigerian children out of school
The straight and sure way
From babyhood to bandithood
And the trail of tears that drown the nation
Failing factories, booming churches
The jobless join the hopeless
Miracle crowds on tenuous hopes
Predatory pastors and their phantom faiths
Happy through them all
Our eyes glow in the dark
Dancing and shouting in garish garments
We the owambe crowd of a happy nation