Originally Posted by Robot
It seems Nigerians are forever destined to be shackled down by their past history, culture and belief; albeit in the most negative sense. When the Jihadists, the Evangelists and missionaries came calling at separate times into the heartland of the Dark Continent, they assumed they were bringing light, enlightenment and religion to the peoples of that conglomeration of land called Nigeria and its people; aka Nigerians. Of course, ever so pragmatic, these people embraced their visitors and their strange ways, influences and religion. In fact, so pragmatic are these people that with the passage of time, they shed all outward manners, forms, attitudes and appearances that would suggest that they hold fast to a moribund past or connote that they are living relics of the past! In order to outdo themselves, they became more pious than the Jihadists with the Quarán from across the Sahara themselves and could easily regale you with how many times they knock their h...
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Interesting satirical piece. No doubt you will incur the wrath from both sides of the People who follow the Book.
I think your strongest point is about the pragmaticism of Nigerians, able to shed or adopt new ways of behaving and believing if it seems to assist materially. Many publicists for Christianity and Islam like to rebrand the mass conversions as evidence of the spiritual superiority of their respective faiths, but is it not much more plausible that people converted and continue to convert through a more worldly combination of self-interest and peer pressure?
The later sections of your piece drift more towards the inflammatory and exaggerated caricatures, which are in keeping with satire, but deliberately offensive to Christians and Muslims, who of course will immediately switch to attack mode. As a satirical piece, I think that you could achieve greater effect by introducing an allegorical aspect: for example, reducing the scope to individuals trying to convert one another; or changing the environment & labels to create a fictional situation and country. This could also increase the comic effect.