The Victim and The Attacker is a project that tells the story of myself as a Nigerian born Briton, And I used to the poem to focus on the history of the cultural understanding of slavery and how greed, selfishness, and evil intention play a part in the enslaving of Nigerians, as well as to focus on the division caused by slavery and how it is created a level of qualification to how black or African u are by the circumstance of your families position in society, rather than the cultural heritage you inherit as a person.
And in the essence, the poem basically says that in code word I am still black by skin colour, but I am also white by my way of life. It is a statement of the world we live in today to vocalize the notion that there really shouldn’t be any form of discrimination because the skin colour thoroughly has no place for categorizing people in boxes they do not belong to because there is no such thing has those boxes anymore.
I, as a black man, speak both English and Yoruba and I can claim both to be my mother tongues because I grew up speaking both, I can dress as an English man wearing a tuxedo and still be able to change into a tradition Agbada, and it would not look out of place.
I could choose to leave England and move back to Nigeria and it would be an ok thing to do because now in the age of time we live in I believe there is no black and there is no white. There is just the world and the whole poem said I might still have pain in my heart from the history but the history is part of who I am it is part of my DNA and when I die. I will die with all of this part of history as my life.
So to conclude the poem is saying let's put the fighting and arguing aside and understand, we are all equals and we need to rebuild our world as one, not factions.
We are the World.
