Images of charred Nigerian bodies have been circulating the Internet since a terrorist attack occurred in several northern villages within the country January 3.
The death toll is estimated to be more than 2,000, yet the most-trafficked picture online only offers a glimpse at the aftermath.
Wale, a rapper of Nigerian descent, says he can’t bear to view the photos.
“I didn’t want to see them, but people kept sending them, people kept posting them,” he tells MTV in an interview. “It’s one of those things where we can complain all we want: ‘My feet hurt, my legs hurt, my back hurts, my girl broke up with me’ — you got to look a little deeper into the world. These are minuscule, minor things compared to what’s going on in the world.”
Similar terrorist attacks have taken place within the country since 2009. The militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been largely responsible for a number of violent incidents on schools, churches, police and civilians.
Authorities believe they are also behind the most recent raid on Baga and 15 additional northern Nigerian villages.
“It’s fucked up and it’s just like, ‘Where are you safe at? Where?’” Wale asks. “Something as pure as religion, which is essentially love, love for mankind and respect and loyalty to your spirit, a loyalty within self, a love within self. It’s so crazy that has been used as a tool to kill, to murder and to have no boundaries.”
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Religion is love?
This ridiculous view of religions, ESPECIALLY religions forced on our ancestors by violent foreigners, is a big reason why black people are as powerless as we are.
While we in Nigeria apprecaite all the exposure we can get to find a solution note that these picture are NOT from Nigeria but from the Congo from four years ago when there was a Fuel Dump explosion. Just use Google Image and search.
come on like anybody gives a fuck about some shitskins in africa let them starve to death with flies all over their dead bodies lol
You are just a fucking fool, where do you think africa is? you think what you see on tv is what it is. I was in the usa last week and all i could see was you punk assess behaving like low lives. funny part is that most of our are actually illiterates. With your stupid ass associate degree that you carry around like its some real shit. Associate degree is equivalent to being a drop out in Nigeria. Use Google right and quit being a misinformed low life
I wonder why him and Chamillionaire haven’t done a song together since both are Nigerian.