24/11/2025
Perhaps, this would be the most powerful message, backed by verifiable stories, to the Igbos and every other tribe in Nigeria.
You see, sometimes a people rise not because their country loved them but because their country abandoned them.
Sometimes greatness begins the day you stop waiting for a government that will never come.
If you look around the world you will see that history has a pattern. It repeats itself with frightening accuracy.
There are tribes and regions that were broken, insulted, sidelined and forgotten.
But the moment they said “enough” and faced their own land, something supernatural happened.
Let me show you.
1. The Basques. Spain treated them like strangers in their own land.
For decades, the Basque people were suppressed.
Their language was banned. Their identity was mocked. Their culture was almost crushed by military dictators.
They begged Madrid for development. Madrid gave them silence. They asked for justice but got humiliation.
So the Basques turned inward. They assembled their best brains. They created their own schools. They built their own factories. They formed one of the largest cooperative networks on earth.
They did not wait for Spain to lift them. They lifted themselves.
Today the Basque region is one of the richest, safest and most industrial parts of Europe.
A people that were once treated like a burden now carry the economic spine of their nation.
This is not luck.
This is what happens when a wounded tribe decides that pain will no longer define their future.
2. Catalonia. Marginalized, punished, mocked. Now the economic heart of Spain.
Catalonia cried for fairness for so many years but
Spain ignored them.
For years they were accused of being rebels, troublemakers, dreamers who should know their place, just like the Igbos.
So they turned to themselves. Through their sufferings and struggles, through the fire of rejection
they built Barcelona. They built industries.
They built thriving small and medium enter
