The Yorubas have a popular adage: omo ti a ko ko ni yo gbe ile ti a ko ta, meaning that the child that you did not build will eventually sell the house you built at a giveaway price.
Funke Egbemode
Violence, all kinds of violence seem to have found abode in Nigeria: religious violence, political violence and social violence. They are at home here. Blood everywhere, human blood. I do not know any religion that forgives or will forgive the spilling of human blood on a daily basis. Yet somehow we think ‘it is well’, that our land will prosper, that we can step through human blood and ascend into goodness and wealth. We know it has never happened anywhere but we expect it to happen in Nigeria. We somehow think we can kill children, the weak, the aged and still get the desires of our heart as a nation. We know that there has never been and shall never be peace for the wicked. Peace and the shedding of human blood cannot coexist in the same nation. Examples abound but we…
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