While America and much of the Western world were still reeling—grappling with the legal and economic fallout of what they would later call The Trial of the Century in West Africa—far across the Atlantic, the aftershocks of that same earthquake were being felt just as deeply, if not more chaotically, in one of the most complex and consequential nations on Earth.
Nigeria.
The Giant of Africa.
A country of over 220 million people. Home to more than 250 distinct ethnic groups and hundreds of languages. A land that balances its identity on the twin shoulders of Islam and Christianity, two major religions practiced almost equally by its people. Nigeria did not earn its nickname lightly. It deserved it—rightfully. This was not just the most populous Black nation on the planet; this was a land of unimaginable potential.
A land so blessed, so rich, so strategically positioned, that if there ever existed a country kissed by the divine, it was Nigeria.
