MUSA-ODODO ABDULRAHAMAN
Enlightenment for Conscious Nationhood
I am Nigeria,
A Nation waiting to be born,
Cradled in the unseen,
Longing to break the womb of history,
To be known.
To be seen.
To be made flesh among nations.
I cry out from the depth of the invisible,
“Who shall Father me?”
Who shall dare to behold my mystery?
Who shall hold my essence in their soul
And love me into manifestation?
I am not yet born –
Because I have not yet been understood.
I am concealed,
A sacred blueprint in the Mind of the Creator,
Veiled from the casual and the carnal,
Waiting for a man of Spirit,
A woman of Wisdom,
Who will become my Womb,
And bear me forth with blood and fire.
I AM A NATION.
Not a geography,
Not a flag,
Not a mere artifact of history –
But a Revelation.
A Nation is a Revelation.
Because I come from the Divine.
I am a thought of GOD,
A whisper of Heaven into the affairs of earth.
My birth is not an accident of colonial conference rooms –
But a deliberate intention
From the Highest Realm.
I am the Divine Purpose
For a People yet to remember who they are,
And the Role they must play in the evolution of mankind.
I long to be revealed
To the One
Who can receive me
Not as an idea –
But as a living mandate,
A sacred trust
Inscribed in the inner tablets of the soul.
I AM A NATION.
A Nation is a Covenant.
When I am revealed,
The one who sees me – Must also marry me.
They shall bind their soul to mine.
My pain shall become theirs.
My hope, their breath.
My destiny, their discipline.
And that union shall be a Covenant with GOD.
It shall be a holy vow,
A moral law,
A sacred marriage of man and Nation.
He who will father me – Must become my priest and my builder.
He shall not use me – he shall become me.
I AM A NATION.
A Nation is a Spirit
I am not built with stone before I am built with spirit.
Before the roads, the ports, the buildings –
There must be a Spirit that binds the people,
A living soul that gives meaning to their flag,
A divine essence that breathes into their daily bread
The fire of destiny.
Without this Spirit,
I remain a soulless republic –
Rich in resource, bankrupt in vision.
My Spirit is the source-code of my greatness.
Until it is invoked,
All development is decay in disguise.
I AM A NATION.
A Nation is a Consciousness.
A Nation is not what you live in –
It is what lives in you.
It is a shared awakening
That binds millions into One Purpose,
One Heartbeat,
One Destiny.
Until my children become conscious of me,
They cannot create me.
Until they see themselves not as tribes,
But as carriers of a divine possibility,
They shall remain strangers in their own Promised Land.
I seek a Father,
Who will raise the collective consciousness of my people
To remember me –
Not as a map,
But as a Mandate.
AND SO I CRY…
Who shall Father me?
Who will climb the mountain of vision,
Hear the sacred whisper,
And descend with a blueprint written in fire?
Who shall become
The womb and the sword,
The sage and the servant,
The prophet and the planner?
I am not yet born.
But I am waiting.
I am watching.
I am calling.
Let the one who knows me come forth.
Let the one who becomes me arise.
Let the sons of fire and the daughters of vision
Convene upon the altar of destiny
And birth me into being.
For I am Nigeria,
And I shall be
A Nation of Light.
A Revelation Fulfilled.
A Spirit Embodied.
A Consciousness Awakened.
But first –
Who shall Father me?
Let this sacred invocation echo in every chamber of power,
Let it awaken the slumbering spirits of our youth,
Let it trouble the consciences of our elders,
Let it pierce the clouds above Aso Rock,
And stir the heavens.
The Nation waits,
Not for elections,
But for Revelation.
Not for politicians,
But for Patriarchs and Prophets.
Let the Fathers of the New Nigeria
Arise!
By the Voice of the Nation, interpreted by the Spirit of Conscious Nation-Building
Abdulrahaman is the Founder, Initiative for Discovery of Nigeria Heritage and Endowment (IDNHE)
Chairman, National Policy Dialogue.
www.nationalpolicydialogue.org
