The Sharia and The Rest of Us
On January 31, 1934 Herbert Macaulay wrote the following in the Lagos Daily News: “As Africans, we have been split almost into smithereens by what we call religion in West Africa, where men and women wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, and perhaps even die for it, ay, do anything but live for it.” In 1955, Bishop Anthony Nwedo, who was then a young priest, wrote: “The North looks towards the Sudan and Egypt and Mecca, but the South looks towards New York and London and Rome. The South, Christian in influence, is progressive, while the Moslem North is rather static. And so, the Moslem North, big in bulk, and feudal in outlook, fears the advance of the Christian South, where the leaven of the Gospel is beginning to spread its influence.” Today, as Nigeria reeks with so much blood being spilled in the name of religion, it is evident that the Muslim North is not happy with the Christian South. In an attempt to arrest the advance of the Christian South and thus allay its fears, the Muslim North grabbed political power long ago, indiscriminately mixed religion and politics and with both has been inflicting so much pain on the entire nation. As a result, Nigeria has been seething with anger and violent resentments. Today, the type of ominous clouds that eventually snowballed into the bloody thirty-month civil war of the late nineteen-sixties are here with us. The Sharia and the Rest of Us is a brief account of how the desperate attempt to replace the Nigerian constitution with the Sharia law in some States in the North claimed hundreds of lives.
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