Sola Sobowale, Nigerian actress-cum-screenwriter, has described Nigeria as a “dumping ground.”
She added that some of “our children can’t even speak our language.”
The 57-year-old actress, disclosed this during a chat with Ebuka on Rubbin’ Minds.
“Nigeria looks like a country that is a dumping ground. We’re fake. With cars, some countries say they can’t get sweepers to clear their roads (of used cars). Then, they send to Nigeria.
“When you get to our homes, you’ll see that lots of our children can’t even speak our language. What is happening! English is for Education so we can interact in classrooms.
“But what about our own culture? We need to start making our children know where they come from and speak our languages. English is secondary!”
Sobowale, who is renowned as the ‘King of Boys’ also revealed how she shot into the limelight and gave reasons why she sent her children out of the country for tertiary education.
On the emerging concept of feminism in Nigeria and the role of women in children’s education, she reprimanded many women for “losing it” and not scrutinizing their ward’s academic activities.
“I know what education is. I know what my father did. But, along the line when I started having my children, I paid so much money in schools through my nose,” she added.
“But, after this, what university are they going to attend? With a course of three years, they end up doing it for six because of strikes and strikes.
“I can’t spend that kind of money and my children are not where I want them to be in the end. So I decided they were going to leave Nigeria.”