In Search of Iconoclasts By Modiu Olaguro

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Modiu Olaguro 1 In Search of Iconoclasts By Modiu Olaguro

“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”—Frantz Fanon.

As a young African living in the 21st century, a reality one cannot but confront is the age-long tradition that strips many a naive of independence of thought and action. Beneath this seemingly harmless reality lies an expectation to confer in absolute terms, wisdom on people solely on the basis of the number of grey strands on the head. What in all probability started as an offshoot of communalism in those days when men of character litter the rank and file of the society—a time when adults speak less words of admonition than they espouse sterling qualities—is being retained by a generation that treats morality and every act of forthrightness in ways suggesting absolute relativism.

They’ve turned the leadership space to an abode…



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