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REFLECTIONS: A plea...

REFLECTIONS: A plea... : "They make me feel like am whining. I look around and when I see my fellow country people, seemingly comfortable and almost uncaring or un..."

A plea...

They make me feel like am whining. I look around and when I see my fellow country people, seemingly comfortable and almost uncaring or undisturbed; I often wonder if am the only person whining about missing home so much. But apparently, am not alone in that   thought. I have been in conversations with a few ladies and they also seem to share my feelings. Infact, not just   fellow Nigerians, but a colleague here at the office and of different national. But what seem bother me is how much others in Diaspora have completely lost touch with their roots and seem to be compensated by the comfort of the West. I strongly believe home is home, no matter the comfort. One thing is certain though, the developing nations have lost some of the best of their brains to the developed nations. An incontestable fact as it were. Right here where I am and from my angle of knowledge, there are hundreds of professionals both in the health and the educational sector, who could have contributed to the bette