Quote: (01-10-2015 03:07 PM)CrashBangWallop Wrote:
Nigeria is essentially fighting a civil war and for all intents and purposes is now two countries; the Muslim north (the shit bit obv) and the Christian South.
Of course this is a generalisation.
...but not by much.
I know lots of good folks from Nigeria in the south, they for the most part don't give 2 fucks about the North. The south is becoming a bubble in its own, generating GDP of 8% on average, services, communication, construction, and cheap labour from the north when needed. The far North, poor, illiterate, backwards, and Islamized pretty heavily. The people that have it the worst are the moderate middle class northeners who enjoy a brew, a blow job, and some security. They don't care about a religious war.
People in the south vote for their own people, do their own thing, and generally don't consider what's happening in the north to be their own problem. To people in the south, the Boko Haram problem is what people in the US consider the drug cartel problem in Mexico. Close, yet very distant, someone else's problem.