"Burden of Nationality" is a story of post-colonial Africa. It is a story of a people who suddenly find themselves in the same net under one flag with their traditional enemies. It is about a people trying to find their fair and just place within that net. It is about a people trying to break away from a forced and unfair unity about which they were never consulted.
It is also about a people who are humiliated daily by self-imposed governments in remote capitals; a people whose armed forces, not being accountable in many ways to their citizens, behaving like occupation armies: raping, pillaging and destroying at will. It is about a continent in which governments will organise and execute a "Jihad" (Islamic Holy War) or genocidal war against its own citizens. It is about a people regularly savaged by their own "liberators", who often forget they are committing the same crimes - and often worse - than those committed by the governments against whom they took up arms. It is a burden induced by tyranny, corruption and moral bankruptcy of leadership in government or in opposition.
It is also about a people who are humiliated daily by self-imposed governments in remote capitals; a people whose armed forces, not being accountable in many ways to their citizens, behaving like occupation armies: raping, pillaging and destroying at will. It is about a continent in which governments will organise and execute a "Jihad" (Islamic Holy War) or genocidal war against its own citizens. It is about a people regularly savaged by their own "liberators", who often forget they are committing the same crimes - and often worse - than those committed by the governments against whom they took up arms. It is a burden induced by tyranny, corruption and moral bankruptcy of leadership in government or in opposition.
