The minute you understand the history of British colonisation and the wider logic of imperialism is the minute you free yourself from the mental tyranny of artificial constructs like "tribe."
Once you learn that the modern day "Yoruba," "Igbo" and "Hausa" identities are products of colonisation, and that there was in fact no such thing as a "Yoruba" or an "Igbo" people before the British created Nigeria (even the word "Yoruba" is an exonym that has no meaning in the language it describes), you finally understand the true extent and ugliness of what colonialism really was.
It was an audacious social and economic engineering project on the kind of scale that only a paranoid delusional who thinks he is a god should even be able to conceive of. The idea was to convert these diverse groups of millions of free African peoples (who constantly opposed and fought against the British empire) into self-replicating imperial drones who would eternally fight each other for the temporary privilege of being the most favoured servants of the empire, without it occurring to them that they could band together and break free from the empire instead.
Nothing was a coincidence. From their deliberate unbalancing of the tripartite ethnic power-sharing arrangement through the fraudulent census that counted more people in the Sahel than by the coast (the basis of Nigeria's everlasting population myth), to their use of the BBC World Service to brand the January 1966 putsch as an "Igbo coup," to their subtle and repeated use of Goodluck Jonathan's middle name (Azikiwe) on BBC Hausa and RFI Hausa during the 2011-2015 regime change operation...all of it was planned and deliberate.
And once you understand that the biggest threat Nigeria actually faces comes from DC, Paris, London, and Brussels - not from any group of Nigerian idiots doing whatever idiocy they are doing - you gain a proper sense of perspective, and you grasp where you stand in the wider world. At that point, "tribalism" starts to resemble dog faeces to you, because you understand where it came from, what role it serves, and who actively maintains it - including the American bot farms that have created "Nigerian" accounts with matric number handles to fan the flames of ethnic conflict all over Nigerian social media since 2022.
But I know that maybe like 50 people will even read this tweet this far because even though a Nigerian man will risk his life to scoop 50 litres of ka-boom-boom from a fallen petrol tanker, the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life.
At best the sorry blockhead will comment "Grok summarise this" in the comment section.
One reason I have a deep contempt for tribalism is because I studied History at IMSU. That was my Bachelor’s degree. When you understand how the East, despite the Civil War, remains neither the least developed nor the most illiterate region in Nigeria, you realize how astonishing that resilience is. Igbos lost loved ones in the millions. The 1966 anti-Igbo pogroms happened just 59 years ago. It’s still very recent. We underestimate the effect of tribalism. It is not spontaneous; it is systemic.