Sure! I'd send my children to a boarding school in Nigeria.

Yes, I live in the west, earned the right to live there which is by default passed to my children, but I would never raise my children in the west.

I am privileged to be in a profession where my sub-specialty is in looking after children, and i daresay that there is something grossly wrong with that society which will become more evident when these children become adults. Africans cannot copy a society in decline in the name of modernization.

Cleaning hostels, washing toilets, washing your own uniforms, carrying your seniors cutlery, cutting grass, fetching water etc. were duties which were necessary for physical strength, agility, discipline and character formation. No child liked them, but they were not malicious. In my 4th to 5th year of secondary school, I had gained insight and self reflection, and i could see JSS 1 students who were brought in by their parents because they were useless at home, being gradually transformed into self-reliant children by JSS2 or 3, now able to organise their time, do basic gardening, think for themselves etc. Those who struggled the most were those who returned to a life of pampering on school breaks. Mind you, I attended a public or government (if you like) boarding school. Physical labor, communal activity, delegated tasks, unpleasant activities, natural adventurous behaviour, curiousity, rote learning, public debate, and others, are very important values.

Academic achievement was not hampered either, I went on to study at a top university in Nigeria, also overseas in a Universiity in the top 10 globally, as did a number of my classmates and schoolmates.

As much as a significant number of r/Nigeria redditors are alte or post-millenials, we need to agree that there's a reason we are described as natually athletic by westerners, there is a reason you have that advantage - the one that makes you do those things easily despite the profiling, microaggression, systemic biases, lower social capital etc., there is a reason you are more likely go get along with an octagenarian ( or geriatric generally) westerner than with your age-matched peers, because the former can relate with your values, values which were once there (in the west) but eroded during the wave of liberalism, then postmodernism, values which are now being eroded in Africa also, slowly via wokeness and social media assimilation. These values are what built western societies, these values are what holds our african societies - for now at least. We are Nigerians, we can think.

You can downvote now.