David, The Nigerian Atlas.

Everyday I wake with a pain, a pain that lives with me daily, t hat pain of being a Nigerian, living in Nigeria. I hardly sleep these days and the sleep I would have the day I leave Nigeria would be the first true sleep of my life. Because even before I died Nigeria killed me multiple times.

A list of things I hope to do one day if I'm able to escape this hell hole called Nigeria or if it doesn't kill me before then. 1. Escape Nigeria & Nigerians 2. Travel the World 3. Go Skydiving or Bungee Jumping 4. Explore the bottom of the Sea in a Sub 5. Visit Space or as close as possible i.e the upper atmosphere where space technically begins. Hope to do all this some day.

Better to live a short productive meaningful and impactful life than a long useless hopeless existence, as most Nigerians do.

Better to be dead, than to be a Nigerian living in Nigeria.

A conglomerate of backward, illiterate, superstitious, fearful and overly religious people. Divided by tribe, ethnicity, religion and held together only by poverty and suffering. A people that can never speak up for their rights nor do so with one voice, neither their so revered religious leaders too. Nigeria, it's people, it's past and present leaders, it's religious heads, everything about Nigeria has failed and is a failure. I regret being a Nigerian and always will.

No child deserves to be born a Nigerian, it's an act of utter and sheer wickedness. (D.N.A)

Suicide and death have become the solace of many a Nigerian, citizens battered, depressed and frustrated have now reached a point where death and rest from the failures of the country and it's system have become their only respite. Yet the government and leaders in their characteristic moronic ways are neither ready to respond or do anything about the abounding deaths of it's citizens. Being a youth in Nigeria and not having your top plans being to flee the country, then you're a failed youth because no matter whatever you achieve the system soonest catches up with you and most times in a deathly and grave way. Most Nigerians and their leaders are hypocritical, foolish and backward thinking, only good in self serving religiousness and tribalism. I have never had any hope in Nigeria, knowing the calibre of it's citizens and leaders.  I'm yet to travel outside the country but from those that have, when one travels outside Nigeria, your disgust for th...

A writer does not only write because he has something to say, but also because he has to write, just as he has to breathe. (D.N.A)

By the power of imagination, I conquer the world. (D.N.A)

Another day, another life, another death, another fear. What is that thing holding us, holding Nigerians, preventing us from being great, from being all we can be and meant to be. We continually pray, we continually hope, we continually flee our country, yet we're the citizens and the leaders responsible for where we are and what we are. We are cheats, we're thieves, we're corrupt, we are killers, we are envious of our fellows, we backbite and slander, we refuse to read, to learn, to improve, yet we remain so wise and too wise in our own eyes. We continue to sink to a new low everyday and on every index and scale except for the negative. Poverty, frustration, death the only pictures millions see daily. I wake everyday empty, frustrated and tired, tired of my life as a Nigerian, wishing I can leave and never return, run away from my life, from me, from Nigeria, and the Nigerian in me. Fearful for my daily sustenance, fearful for my children yet to come, fearful for t...