There is no question in a celebrity-craze world that the visit of Prince Harry & Meghan is a big deal, especially when one adds the fact of Meghan’s Nigerian ancestry. Forty-three percent Nigerian DNA for mixed race Meghan is remarkable indeed.
However, the over-the top reception, the media hysteria, and everyone, including governors, falling over one another for a handshake and photo-op with the couple show that the colo-mentality and the racial inferiority complex which Fela sang about decades ago are still alive and thriving in our society.
Harry and Meghan gave up their royal duties and are technically not representing the British monarchy. But you couldn’t tell that given the hysteria in the social and traditional media.
Thankfully, the presidency and the foreign affairs diplomats played it just about right.
Don’t be surprised if, in the next few days, a controversy arises in Nigeria between the Igbo and other Nigerian ethnicities over which ethnicity accounts for Meghan’s DNA.
