Persuasive Speech on behalf of the Igbo community

Respected gentleman of the Royal Colonial Institue, 

This evening, it is with an honor that I speak on behalf of people whose culture, central values and folklore, I believe are deeply entrenched within the concept of cultural development, duality, social equality, and interdependence. However, very, unfortunately, I can guarantee you that in this very minute, hundreds if not thousands of their people, are being divided, conquered and hegemonized, their lands colonized and their resources harnessed by our very men for almost a century now. We have equivocated our actions and deceived their people into entirely believing that colonizing them is absolutely innocuous and is bequeathing numerous incomes which weren’t within the bounds of eliciting benefits to only them, but their land too. We have taken desecrating an entire culture to new celestial heights by introducing a way of living which we considered to be the ideal, civilized and superlative one and heavily instilled the coercion of practicing it and forced full complying with it. The truth is that we are exploiting every ambiguity of what we call civilizing them, and it bewilders every inch of myself. We are convicted of this pretense and must earnestly and desperately beg for their amnesty. 

The disfigurement we have caused, which was initially labeled under the development of a more sustainable nationalistic ideal has become too insurmountable and will lose its solemnity and reverence more and more as we progress to unapologetically cause this injustice. The expedition was merely driven by iniquity and villainy. Alas! Pardon me as I strongly condemn and label such actions which I believe one cannot sympathize with but I am driven by my Christian values... our values, our morals, our religion, our guiding force that has demanded us to abandon such evil-doing.

My honorable delegates, do not misinterpret my presence here to only hold you accountable for your faults at all. I am solely here for the emancipation of these innocent individuals and to speak up for them, for the conquered, for the weak and for all the maltreated and oppressed.