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On Jan 27, 2020, at 5:53 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:
"If the truth doesn't matter, we are lost"-Adam Schiff(U.S.A Congressman)
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Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe didn’t quite get it right this time. We in Onitsha Kingdom do kneel and bow before our King, the Obi of Onitsha.
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To the Onitsha person, the Obi is a god(chi), a representative of God(Chi ukwu).
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi,
I’m curious.
Yes, we all pray, May God Bless America, but is it a now a matter of premediated Pan-Africanist policy that should that something unforeseen soon happen it will be a mass exodus and, “U.S.A of course would be the first choice for Nigerians.”? Eh, Chidi?
If your mind is already made up about that I hope that your residence is close to the nearest airport, for a quick getaway for you & your family first, others later. I’m only expecting this because according to Baba Kadiri, I.G.B.O. is the acronym for I Go Before Others, a wise but not necessarily a heroic or chivalric spirit of self-preservation. But there must some true-ism in the saying, “Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die”
My dear friend and sometime defender Alim Sesay once joked that in the early years of the RUF War in Sierra Leone, when the war was still confined to the East and some equally dark things were happening up North, some of the Creoles in Freetown were quite unperturbed, that their attitude was, “Oh the savages! By Jove, those savages! Let them go on killing themselves until they get tired of the bloodshed, Ojare!” However, on the 6th of January 1999 when the RUF suddenly ( like a flash of lightning) descended on Freetown – like Hannibal the son of Ogun’s surprise attack, unexpectedly descending down alps and taking everyone completely by surprise, in the RUF’s case to begin what they declared was their “Operation Spare No Soul“ and “Operation No living Thing”, it was then that Dr Olufemi Johnson groaned in Krio, “which God for call? ” and started to cry. There was no possibility of a quick getaway, the airport was too far away, and the boats to Banjul were already fully loaded. He gave his last-minute orders to his houseboy Santigie to lock the gates and barricade the garage doors. Now the question remained and he couldn’t quite figure out an answer, where to hide his daughters and his wife from the savages, the advancing rapists?
With regard to that episode of the war the people of Freetown still say, “ God Bless Nigeria” – and will forever be grateful to Nigeria, because without the Nigerian troops and the Nigerian Airforce – all under the ECOMOG flag - under Nigerian of Brigadier General Maxwell Khobe – the genocide would have been a fait accompli….
An Israeli once told me that as a prisoner of war, you don’t wait until the full moon or when the place is completely dark, you escape at the earliest opportunity - like Sierra Leone’s late President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , the moment that Johnny Paul Koroma struck ( to oust him by a military coup) Alhaji Kabbah hopped into the nearest helicopter that few him to Guinea Conakry and stayed there as a refugee for a good ten months.
We may still enquire, why didn’t Kabbah continue his flight from Conakry to New York City? And why didn’t Ojukwu flee from Abidjan to Washington DC, or why didn’t Dr Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah flee from Conakry to Peking? Clearly, the reason (not necessarily Pan- African) was they wanted to remain close to home for a quick comeback…
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Saying he knows … seems a generous statement. This is likely another fear tactic to use on the American people to make them think he is protecting them…. Did you see his Superbowl statement – “he’s protecting us (Americans)” from what? Ourselves?? These actions are about the Presidential Campaign not about international affairs.
Hoping for a common sense and checks and balances to work their way back into American politics.
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I live here too. Not only that I live here, my interactions cut across all segments.
I have friends who are Lawyers, Accountants, Journalists, Medical doctors, Cobblers,Carpenters, Bricklayers, etc.
I regularly hold intimate discussions with these people.
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More info Saying he knows … seems a generous statement. This is likely another fear tactic to use on the American people to make them think he is protecting them…. Did you see his Superbowl statement – “he’s protecting us (Americans)” from what? Ourselves?? These actions are about the Presidential Campaign not about international affairs.
Hoping for a common sense and checks and balances to work their way back into American politics.
-Jamaine Abidogun
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President Trump obviously know things that we do not know. He probably knows that very soon something will happen in Nigeria that would trigger off large scale migrant visa applications. U.S.A of course would be the first choice for Nigerians.
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Dear Everybody,
Here is something to reconsider: The Brain Drain: from Nigeria to the United States . It should be interesting to hear what the various highly paid professors, scholars, overqualified academics and even the unemployed and unemployable among us here have to say about reversing this trend. It’s alright for Trump to say, “America First! “You can fault him for that? What do you want him to say instead? Wouldn’t you accuse him of hypocrisy and insincerity if he declared that just like President Muhammadu Buhari, he was elected to declare, “Nigeria First!”?
The sorry fact is that whenever there is a revolution or the violent upheaval of the type that Sowore probably has in mind, the ones who can afford it are usually the first set of people to packs their bags and make it to the nearest airport, to fly out of the country - and usually ( to use denigratory Marxist terminology) it’s the bourgeoisie and the petty-bourgeoise to get the hell out of wherever. This was true of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979 – the early 80s). Whilst I was on my way to Nigeria, the first wave of Iranian bourgeoisie and wave after wave of the Iranian petty-bourgeoise were still on their way to California. So, today there are over a million Iranians there – in fact for the past 40 years or so, LA has been the headquarters of the latest and greatest output of Iranian music in the world of Dunia. Just as - according to Chidi “U.S.A, of course, would be the first choice for Nigerians” – so too it was for the Iranians. Some of the cultured and cultural elite chose France, where they still remain, followed by Germany, where they are quite successful and even have their own hospitals, followed by the United Kingdom and Sweden (but it’s not mostly the Iranian opposition that lives over here. When it comes to the love of country, every Iranian loves Iran, is proud of and boasts endlessly about Iranian culture and civilization, poetry, music architecture, the Iranian influence on Judaistic conceptions of darkness and light, etc. etc. So, Iranians are respected, wherever they are. Full stop
There’s the romantic school of thought among the idealistic earthlings and they believe that “No one is an alien”. Their national/ international/ global anthem is in line with John Lennon’s “Imagine” and the Negro spirituals “Amazing Grace “and “We shall overcome”
There’s also the radical school of “No one is illegal”. They have a dream. All things considered, this could soon become a reality in borderless Africa that Julius Malema imagines should be brought about in the near future, a future where the anthem is of course Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and Bob Marley’s “ One Love”. Once that One Africa is birthed we will no longer be reading about man’s inhumanity to man, such as this latest spate of culpable xenophobia resulting in these kinds of homicide: Nine Lesotho miners killed in South Africa
It should be up to someone among us and left up to me, I would nominate the Biko Agozino the anti-imperialist criminologist for the job of forwarding these two pertinent and interlinked ideas to President Donald J Trump with the recommendation that Trump should integrate these suggestions into his campaign strategy for an easy walkover Bernie the Commie who soon enough will be trying to capture the totality of the Black vote when he puts REPARATIONS on his agenda for Black America; that, however, would be most pleasing to African Americans. You be the judge; I arrived at that conclusion about reparations on the Bernie Sanders Socialist agenda early this morning after watching this program on al Jazeera: A Moral Debt: The Legacy of Slavery in the USA
To capture the Nigerian-American vote Biko would have to persuade the POTUS that
1. No one is an alien
2. No one is an alien.
I suspect that say it loud, I’m Black and proud Biko would like to go beyond those two and add a number three, all uniquely beautiful and entirely his own, to wit that
3. “No one comes from a shithole country.”
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On 9 Feb 2020, at 9:22 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi...@gmail.com> wrote:
“But the truth is that Northern Elders' Forum is just Ango Abdullahi, and Ango Abdullahi is Northern Elders' Forum. It is a quasi-organization that boasts of no credible membership, and its leader is akin to a General without troops"---Nigeria Presidency.
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Because I thought there could have been a spelling mistake and just to make double sure that it was not “ Anglo Abdullahi” I googled the name Ango Abdullahi and was quite surprised to understand that he’s not as bad as some people want to make him out to be. So far, I have only listened to what he has to say in that YouTube interview, the appetite has been enormously whetted by his opening preamble about the Fulani Herdsmen – Farmers conflict which (speaking in November 2019) he says, “is a political fabrication”. Such a view is new, possibly original, certainly controversial enough. As I write this I’m listening on, hoping that he will explain himself. What he says is very interesting…
We ought not to disrespect the elders just because they hold views that are different from our own cherished notions.
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Professor Abdullah Ibrahim,
You as a conscious man of words and we as sensitive readers
Re - your words - “how Ango destroyed ABU”
For me, in this Boko Haram era of terror “destroyed” is a very strong word and a very serious accusation.
“Do your research”, you say.
I don’t think that it’s fair that you make this kind of accusation in a public forum and you want to leave it up to the likes of Cornelius Ignoramus to have to excavate the evidence that supports your accusation. Not that I haven’t tried. Where do I begin that kind of research? I did google “ Professor Ango Abdullahi and the Ahmadu Bello University” and that merely threw up the fact that he is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and an Agricultural Scientist and that in the period 1979 – 1986 he was Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria – perhaps an administrative position that qualifies him to weigh in on e.g. the farmers and Fulani herders issue.
I couldn’t find anything about what you say he did to ABU and frankly can’t spare the time to investigate your claims. As Toyin Adepoju suggests, you could buttress your accusation by providing us with at least some minimal evidence. When you are reluctant to do so one is left with the impression that you are unnecessarily anti-North and could be charged with bearing false witness against our Northern neighbours…
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Professor Abdullah Ibrahim,
Re - “When you reduce re-search to google/wiki I know you can't be serious”. Me?
Is that what I did or what I said?
Well, I’m really not that serious or interested in pursuing the matter any further. Today, I take your word for it that your namesake “destroyed” ABU. I merely thought that Alagba Google would be a good starting point – assuming that the matter was serious enough for someone (maybe someone like you who feels so strongly about Ango Abdullahi at ABU to have written, maybe a book or two about it? Surely, that history has to be written?
If this your assessment had surfaced a few years ago then I would have asked e.g. Professor Björn Beckman about Ango Abdullahi at whatever time I accidentally bumped into him, which was not that infrequent, because he happened to by teaching at Ahmadu Bello during Ango Abdullahi’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor or indeed I could have asked Mr. Arne Ekefelt, Sweden’s former Ambassador to Nigeria, when I went to see him about Lt. General Oladipo Diya the day after I saw the general trembling and in chains on Swedish TV. (I spent a good hour with the Ambassador and was amazed at the depth of his knowledge and the fact that he was personally acquainted with people such as Buhari, Babangida, and of greater relevance at the time, Sani Abacha himself and others connected with Zaria and Katsina.
There are other people that I know who taught at ABU at the time and who I could ask even right now, by merely picking up the phone. But I take your word for it, O trustworthy one.
BTW I’m more on top of this sort of instrumental musiki
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi,
I suppose that “Nigeria” is also a metaphor for somewhere here on earth. Ditto Oduduwa, another imaginary location to which some souls qualify to transmigrate. It’s a meritocracy.
Hell? They say that that’s the place where members of Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society ultimately suffer their everlasting punishment.
Still shmiling and shuffering in the vale of tears, there are those who say that money is the root of all evil. My friend Momodu Sidibeh says that it can also be the root of a lot of good. If, as some of the sceptics and poets believe, Hell (Jahannam) and Heaven ( Jannah) are mere “metaphors” for punishment and reward in the hereafter, then perhaps, they had better be very careful - the fire is said to be a very real fire, the heat, hotter than the surface of the sun, just as the gardens and the houris are also very real. There are many polemical discussions in the wholly Holy Quran pointing to the hapless journey’s end for the disbelievers.
Exactly where and when does “the Hereafter” begin? Does it begin with the soul leaving the body - they say through the mouth, after the last breath, or does the “Hereafter” begin with the questions in the grave ?
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You are a good man, so when you die and go to the great beyond, your reward would be that you would come back to earth as a prince, heir apparent to a large rich kingdom. Those who are very bad would come back to earth as ants, millipedes, etc.
I have just presented above, other metaphors for rewards and punishments in the hereafter.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Chidi Anthony Opara,
Consider this Gospel story which I heard in Umuahia:
“As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered: “No one is good--except God alone.”
Of course, that’s how the sycophants address their presidents, prime ministers, chiefs, professors, heads of departments and bank managers when they approach them with a view of obtaining something. The Devil’s dictionary defines it as “ abasement” : “A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth or power. Peculiarly appropriate in an employee when addressing an employer.”
The supplicant abases himself and elevates the one from whom he seeks favour and expects a fat appointment such as that of Federal Minister of Finance & Economic Development or Federal Minster of Petroleum, or a lucrative position as “Federal Minster of Justice “ or a coveted appointment as Oga of Ogas in any the other lesser ministries. Elmer Gantry himself wouldn’t mind being appointed king of kings at the Federal Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Development or Ambassador to the Court of St. James/ Washington DC / Berlin/ Beijing /Moscow/ Tokyo/ Seoul…
“Ghetto blues showed on the news
All is aware
But what the hell do they care?
You across the track
Completely relaxed
You take a warning fact
Don't you never come back” ( Curtis Mayfield : The Other Side of Town)
So, your best wishes for the good guys is that they “come back to earth as a prince, heir apparent to a large rich kingdom.” Well, coming back as the Ooni of Ife sounds like a good idea. Maybe. The good guys are already praying to be reborn in that Royal House, others may even have their hearts set on nothing less than Buckingham Palace.
Don’t forget the Story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama
Today, Buddhists take the Bodhisattva Vow to keep on coming back to teach the dharma, until all sentient beings are liberated.
BTW, what kind of guys do you think have reincarnated or will reincarnate in the future, as President of Nigeria? The United States? China? North Korea? The Gambia? The question is not to be taken lightly. Last night I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read an article by Allan Cronshaw that postulates ( and I trust that I wasn’t dozing off as I read) that the Founding Fathers of the United States who penned the US Constitution were the “reincarnated Apostles of Jesus Christ.”
Just the other day, one of the Brethren from East Africa was lecturing me on “ the last days” and when we broached the subject of LGBT, homosexuality, etc, he told me that they were reincarnations of the people from Sodom and Gomorrah – so I reminded him of Noah and the flood and asked him if the people who perished in that flood are still reincarnating? He retorted, “What do think! !?”
I think that it’s good if people believe in Reincarnation - the law of karma – as you sow, so shall you reap, if it makes people strive to be and do better, so that still on the evolutionary plane, we don’t come back as cockroaches next time…
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Lord Abolaji A. Adekeye,
Your second question brings to mind not a victim of one of the notorious pedophile priests, those veritable wolves in sheep’s clothing that go about ravishing the vulnerable little lambs that have been entrusted to their care, lambs that they are ordained to protect and to teach the holy word of God, no sir, your second question brings to mind Frank Zappa’s Lonely Little Girl.
And I’m feeling protective about her. Here she is, Greta Thunberg, God’s vulnerable little apple, and Trump’s bullying attitude towards her and to the so-called climate change is that of the big bad baboon.
Your second question is the kind of witty observation that Trump would like to pose to little Greta. If Trump framed that question the way you have framed it, it would guarantee him a second term devoted to blaming climate change on the emissions from Jahannam
Strangely enough, the preachers preach about how exceedingly hot it is down there (it’s always down, not up - and it looks like the evil-doers will descend from their graves into the bottomless pit of the roaring inferno located somewhere down down there in the crucible of fire at the epi-center of the bowels of the earth.
Re - the “celestial warming”. The preachers don’t say where the heat in the fiery furnace will be coming from. You innocently enquire whether the fire will be filled by Nuclear or fossil? The Quran al-Karim states authoritatively in Surah al Baqarah: 23 - 24 :
“And if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.
And if ye do it not - and ye can never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire prepared for disbelievers, whose fuel is of men and stones.”
So there! They may mock and scorn all they want but the disbelievers have been warned, the fires of hell will be fuelled by stones and the bones of men.
Some of the disbelievers and their fellow ignoramuses scoff that the Prophet of Islam got it all from Dante’s Inferno. But how could that be, when the Inferno was published eight hundred and forty years after the Prophet of Islam, sallallahu alaihi wa salaam blessed the Hereafter!
The most memorable description of that location (hell) is to be found, not in the Holy Quran but in Chapter Three of James Joyce’s “ A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man”
You have been warned.
Babatunde (Baba has returned)
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Lord Adekeye,
Ai beg. You had better be careful about how you award titles such as “His Holiness” to those who are not neither holy nor luminous, not to mention “His Holy Highness”. Who be he and what could he have been shmoking ?
“Supreme Leader and Emperor of Sweden”?
Now you’ve got me really worried, next thing you know, SÄPO will be on my tail. They know that the Nigerian Mafioso known as Black Axe is slowly and surely establishing themselves in the Swedish realm and when someone from Lagos glorifies Cornelius Ignoramus as
“His Holy Highness,
Supreme Leader and Emperor of Sweden.
The Grand Wizard
The Amotekunius I”,
to a trained ear that sounds like the honorific title of the Nigerian Mafia’s director of operations in Sweden, “The Amotekunius I”, of course, the title of the Supreme commander-in-chief of the Black Axe Defence League
“His Holy Highness “? “The Grand Wizard”?
The Oyibos in SÄPO have already been deceived by Black Axe’s occult pedigree/ credentials and are relegating the cult/sect to some African hocus-pocus juju- witchcraft – superstition – so when you talk about “His Holy Highness, The Grand Wizard “– they must be thinking that I’m The Man! You remember Omowale ( Malcolm X // El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) joking about the colonial Oyibo in Kenya asking some undercover Mau Mau operatives, if they were Mau Mau, the operatives answering innocently, “ Mau-Mau? What’s that boss?”
The closest that I have ever been to SÄPO is that I remember (on many occasions) chatting with some of their agents who used to accompany the Israeli Ambassador to the synagogue on Saturday mornings. If I remember accurately, one of them was later on promoted to be head of the agency….
Once upon a time, I thought that it was only the Saro people that loved awarding titles, until rivals emerged, such as Bokassa I of Central Africa, eclipsed by the champion of East Africa, “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”
I’m glad that you adore Greta. Later this year, she’ll probably be awarded the Nobel Prize for Climate Change.
I’m very unhappy that you are, as you say “extremely anti Trump”. What has he said or done to merit such an extreme reaction in you - all the way over there in Lagos? His temporary tough stance on immigration of Naija people?
As to hell, if we love the Almighty with all our hearts and we love our neighbours, then the fire will never touch us.
For those on the sceptical side, these guys are worth taking a look at: Four Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse: Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens . Here’s the latest posting on their Facebook page: Blind Faith In Religion Destroys Our Ability To Critically Think For Ourselves
Another speculative view from Sweden that should interest you, since you are “extremely anti Trump”: Jan Hallenberg ( a professor of political science) on US foreign policy if the Democrats win ( However, he does not mention a thing about the Demos immigration policies – if they will affect Naija in any way…)
With regard to emigrating from hell to a putative heaven, these kinds of new items should guarantee that Christians in Nigeria now a persecuted species will most probably be granted asylum in the United States by Trump and by any future president as long as the horrific persecution persists:
Islamists in Nigeria are destroying Christian communities
Stop the Christian Genocide in Nigeria
President Buhari should do his best to stop the mess, so that those on the receiving end don’t become “extremely anti- Buhari”
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"Oga Chidi,
Any language whatsoever speaks to a people's titanic engagement with its environment, and the technologies of survival that enabled what we call culture. So, all languages, by that very fact, are cognitive windows into reality. It doesn't matter whether the language is spoke by millions of people or "a tiny enclave." Scholars push for language documentation because all languages matter since they speak to how humans have come to terms with their world; how they have linguistically mapped their existence"-Adeshina.
Adeshina,
Do you think that you addressed the issue I raised within context?
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Lord Adekeye,
You seff! I hope that some of your new words will soon find their way into the Latest Oxford Dictionary. Not a bad feat, these your contributions to Naija diction fertilising Her Majesty’s British English Empire and Commonwealth. Soon enough Professor Kperogi should be writing about these new accretions with some footnotes on Lord Adekeye’s most recent additions: “Saponification” ( that should also earn some space in the Modern Swenglish Dictionary ) along with “Sanpona”
Also currently hitting the airwaves: Nigerian professor reportedly discovers cure for coronavirus.
About the “untouchables” of course not in the sense of the Hindu Caste system ( Dalits, Harijans ) , but more in the sense of “ holy cows”, Swedish TV showed Chaplin vs the FBI ( a French documentary). With the J Edgar Hoover mentality permeating some of the very paranoid intelligence agencies, who is not under suspicion? Some time ago we had Bankole Taylor and his wife Aisha touring the land and informing innocent Swedes about COINTELPRO
You talk about “the lads at SAPO”. That’s one of the fundamental assumptions that some of the criminals make, that there are only “lads” working at every level of security. Fact is that like Mata Hari some of them are probably beautiful lays ( I mean (ladies) maybe even undercover ashawos who can easily cosy up to the miscreants, even get them to “fall in love” and “spill the beans “ or the juice, not knowing what they are doing. She rolls the joint for him, lights it up, he takes a puff and she then arrests him. To Julian Assange’s eternal regret.
SÄPO is still working on the crime of the century, the assassination of Olof Palme. We want to know who did it.
Dawkins is still trying to sell his wares, his latest is “ Outgrowing God” - he wants to put Pastor Adeboye out of business…
Gore Vidal is still one of my icons. He is still surviving as one although I strongly disapprove of the sentiments he expressed when he wrote the forward to this book
A rabbi friend once joked, sarcastically, that King Solomon was so wise because he had so many wives. So, when not being ironic, satirical, or sarcastic, I’m cautious about applying word such as “wise” (like Akintola Wyse), “sagacious”,” sagacity”, especially so after struggling through all that’s said about wisdom in Mesillat Yesharim// The Path of the Just
The understanding is that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom
Here it is, at your feet, the treasure: Messilat Yesharim
They say that “necessity is the mother of invention “ so, here too is some more practical wisdom, these critical days, in lieu of the handshake
Yours sin-cerely,
Cornelius Adebayo
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AN ENGLISH NURSERY RHYME
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose
The law demands that we atone
When we take things that we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
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South Africa prepares for a three-week lockdown
Unfortunately, it’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.
Should the Leadership of Nigeria not order a similar lockdown and the pandemic causes the wanton havoc that is being predicted, there are those who will criticise the Nigerian leadership for not following in the footsteps of India and South Africa.
A 21-day lockdown in Nigeria would affect the Fulani Herdsmen terribly.
There are “certain elements” that are looking for an excuse such as a lockdown of the type that has been ordered in India and in South Africa, intended to protect their citizens from the Corona pandemic) in order to start their rampage/ rebellion/ revolution/ cries of “separation!”
It won’t be easy when the military is called in to enforce/ maintain/ supervise the lockdown. As you know/ are well aware, the military is always on the lookout for “miscreants” who want to challenge their authority by defying curfew orders.
Nobody should be looking forward to a repeat of something like Operation Python Dance 11
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Of course, Chidi could not possibly be referring to the “Witch -Doctor” or the traditional Medicine Man. If what Chidi is saying is that Western-trained African medical doctors are not allowed to prescribe African herbs to patients, “ the efficacy of such herbs notwithstanding”, then that must be in violation of the very Hippocratic Oath, they have taken, the oath to save lives.
In that case, Chidi has to do something about this. Until or unless Chidi helps to facilitate the birth of the New Pecking Order, it will remain the old pecking order, that is, they will first test the new medicine on the rats, then the monkeys, and then some voluntary or involuntary Africans, and then on the lily-white Hippocratic hypocrites themselves. Perhaps Biko Agozino who is already an unabashed apologist for Mary Jane will begin to write an article or two about criminalizing this practice and decriminalizing the efficacy of the traditional herbalist and his herbs.
Good music: African Herbs
I know how people hear words differently, so, just in case the onomatopoeic poet wants to conflate the pecking order with Peking, here’s a list of traditional Chinese medicines
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