Comments on: Rants from Nigerian Bloggers http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/02/rants-from-nigerian-bloggers/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sat, 26 May 2012 18:07:22 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sokari Ekine http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/03/02/rants-from-nigerian-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-27575 Sokari Ekine Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:39:47 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=7230#comment-27575 African Shirts: The whole idea of "passports" has changed. They used to be little books we carried around on our travels with pride. Now passports are documents used to prevent entry and encourage departure. If they are not the "right" one for a particular country, they are used as reasons for interrogation, insults, humiliation. Even entering one's own country is no guarantee that you will be free from some kind of humiliation or interrogation. Where have you been, What did you do there, Where did you get the money to go there and do whatever you did. What have you brought for me, you think you are better because you have travelled to XYZ and so it goes on. I completely agree - we are all people of the world and we have a right to live in peace wherever we choose without having to provide any explanation either to our country of origin or chosen country. In fact it is only when you travel that you realise people are actually the same the world over. We realise that all these differences are only superficial - throw them away and you are left with human beings - good or bad but human beings. African Shirts: The whole idea of “passports” has changed. They used to be little books we carried around on our travels with pride. Now passports are documents used to prevent entry and encourage departure. If they are not the “right” one for a particular country, they are used as reasons for interrogation, insults, humiliation. Even entering one’s own country is no guarantee that you will be free from some kind of humiliation or interrogation. Where have you been, What did you do there, Where did you get the money to go there and do whatever you did. What have you brought for me, you think you are better because you have travelled to XYZ and so it goes on.

I completely agree – we are all people of the world and we have a right to live in peace wherever we choose without having to provide any explanation either to our country of origin or chosen country.

In fact it is only when you travel that you realise people are actually the same the world over. We realise that all these differences are only superficial – throw them away and you are left with human beings – good or bad but human beings.

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