My Green Nigerian Passport.

The geographical location of a country determines if that country will be rich or poor, especially with natural endowments, if the country will be landlocked, have easy trade routes, be in the man made regionalisation of north, south ,east and west, or continentalization. 

My country happens to be man named in the western region of the continent Africa, yes it is rich, (but this doesn't matter)in population and natural resources, and crime and corruption and pollution and so  many other vices, these are undeniable facts, but the stigmatization of these facts on every person carrying a green ECOWAS passport at the borders is preposterous, the scrutiny of your belongings, (i mean each and every one of your clothing, food items, very personal items)is just unacceptable. yes the past and present (maybe even future)leaders have made very horrible choices and decision that we now have to bear the consequences, but that don't mean the whole lot of 170 million people are the same, i don't go around looking at every German as a Nazi, i don't judge the 'old money' white people as slave dealers,i don't think every Indian is awesome in sex, i for certain don't think all Estonian's are slow, but for some reason, the world has chosen to think of me as the girl from the terrorist country, with poverty and corruption stinking up her every breath.

I went to see a documentary at the KUMU museum which was about the refuges, and for some reasons, there black Senegalese amongst them, i was bewilded, when did Syrians become west Africans? and then a Morocco drug addict refereed to her dealers as the Nigerian bosses, it seems like a movie where a black person is featured is not complete until Nigeria is mentioned. that also reminded me of the Hollywood movie i saw recently, where Will Smith was playing a Nigerian doctor, i wasn't curious about the content of the movie, but i just wanted to prove to my friends that he will have the 'relate able African Accent' this is the Accent most producers use in there movies to portray Africa, not minding that the continent speaks differently, i mean within the west African region there are more than 50 Accents, but no, if he manages to speak with a deep voice, and weird assent ,slowly counting his words while he speaks then the movie would be said to be properly done.

My Green Nigerian passport is my pride, and i will forever look at it in that manner, although it has given me negative reviews and judgments, it is my lot, and i love it nonetheless.