Africa Is a Country | 23.12.2025 00:00
For more than four decades, Nigeria has lived inside a carefully constructed narrative of greatness. In the years that followed the civil war, successive governments turned to soft propaganda in an attempt to rebuild national confidence. Slogans such as “Giant of Africa, Africa’s most populous nation, and Good People, Great Nation were promoted as unquestionable truths. These phrases created a symbolic identity that was easy to recite but difficult to verify. What was meant to serve as balm for a wounded nation became the foundation for a culture of exaggeration that still shapes national self-perception.
