OUR SILENCE WILL CONSUME US
Photo by Juan Encalada on Unsplash (My dear reader, this is quite a long one. An exceptionally long one. I considered splitting it into multiple articles, but I have left it as one article because I believe it should be consumed as a whole, or some context will be lost. Please, bear with me and read to the end. I think this message is critical .) “Finally, they came for me and there was no one left to speak out.” Is that line familiar to you? Have you ever heard of Martin Niem ö ller? How about Adolf Hitler ? Nazis ? World War 2 ? The Holocaust ? Concentration camps ? I hope you have because I would like to draw a connection between Martin Niem ö ller and his Germany, and contemporary Nigeria and Nigerians, especially Nigerians who identify as Christian leaders in government, business, and faith-based organizations. (In case you have not, I have embedded hyperlinks to articles that you can read.) Martin Niem ö ller was a prominent German Pastor and an anti-Nazi theologian....