The Uprising is Everywhere - by The Oparinde Christianah

Unemployment is not our biggest problem in Nigeria. Education is.Not the absence of classrooms or the absence of lecturers.The absence of useful information.Tell me why a 500-level student can defend a 40-page project, quote theories from three different textbooks, survive four years of assignments and examinations, and still not know how to write a well-tailored CV. Children were taken to a flyover bridge for excursion. Adults applauded. That should have scared us more than the bridge itself.Because the real tragedy was not the children standing on the flyover.It was the adults standing beneath it, convinced that exposure and education are the same thing. Then a young girl stood up and said Garri is better than rice because Garri is a lifesaver. People laughed.I did not because while some of us heard comedy, she was explaining the economics of survival."Rice is enjoyment. Garri is emergency contact."It is not actually foolishness, it is just intelligence wearing slippers. And now we are told there is "more to life than your degree."After WAEC. After JAMB. After school fees that riseAfter projects, strikes, and sleepless nights.The national encouragement suddenly becomes:"You can sell akara. You can roast corn."So the same country that spent years telling us "read your books so you won't suffer" is now saying "suffering is entrepreneurship."Make una no use motivation cover policy failure.The uprising is everywhere. A woman says she has PCOS or endometriosis, and the first question is:"Can you still give birth?" and not "Are you okay?"Not "How bad is the pain?"Apparently, in this society, a woman's fertility is considered more urgent than her suffering. And you, yes, you with the 50+ videos watched in two hoursOur thumbs are graduating faster than our minds.Blogs know this.That is why they write headlines that insult our intelligence and still get millions of clicks.Because they know many of us will react before reading, argue before understanding, and share before verifying. So tell me honestly, who is the real olodo?The person who lacks formal education?Or the person who has access to books, Wi-Fi, research, lectures, podcasts, and the entire internet, yet refuses to think beyond the caption?Maybe the uprising has already happened.Maybe it happened the day we stopped asking why.The day we celebrated noise over nuance.The day we allowed convenience to replace curiosity.And if, while reading this, you keep thinking of somebody else instead of yourself, CONGRATULATIONS.You have just met the first citizen of the Olodo Uprising.

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