Nigeria, Aug. 5 -- Permit me to offer a history lesson and share a few facts with Minister Khumbudzo Tshaveni about who and what we are as a nation and the contributions and sacrifices that we made for the emancipation of her people, all in the name of Pan-Africanism.

Ours is a great and proud nation of strong, enterprising and resilient people, whose Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed, condemned the Western powers and their support for white minority rule in South Africa and formally declared Nigeria as a member of the famous "front line states" in the fight against Apartheid!

Outside of that, he not only deployed 13,000 Nigerian troops to battle against the Apartheid forces in southern Africa using some of South Africa's neighbou...