and some use the word "cacophonic"
to describe the wailing saxophone of Albert Ayler,
look and do not find any organised chaos
even when they read the musical notation...
As a presidential candidate the Boko Haram people had better take note, I would always start with that secessionist preamble
"that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness!"
Ah freedom! I'm sure that you will agree with me, that love has never been the root of all evil.
Well, there's Marlowe , just as there's Ferlinghetti
Ladies & gentlemen, in tongues have I never spoken
I wish that I could say this in good Nigerian broken
So that there would not be any chance of my being mis-taken
So that even Oga Amos Tutuola the literary godfather of broken Naija English prose no matter where he is at moment would understand me perfectly and not go groping in the darkness to grab or to grasp the crocodile's tail or mistake the tail for the most lethal part - because he at least would know that's not the most lethal part - unless he thinks that Madam Crocodile usually devours her victims by merely lashing them with her tail and not salvation via the orifice through which Jonah entered the belly of that whale.
There's no difference between the little snake and the big snake. That little snake will also grow up to be a terrorist, said the anti-terrorist to me, and that's why we don't make any distinctions between the little one and the big black mamba. You've got to nip them in bud.... a stitch in time can save nine (lives)
One of the wikid things that wikileaks leaked was this one: Cut off the head of the snake ( now the Saudis, the Great Satan & Iran are against ISIS...
The symbol of the snake is versatile – it ranges in meaning from one context to another, even if in Western thought the subtile serpent still has its origin in the Garden of Eden whispering let my lizard speak to thee etc...
This is the sort of message of unity that our African politicians and especially presidential hopefuls in our big and little democracies ought to be preaching – especially in Africa's most populated democracy:
"From the East
From the West,
From the South to the North,
nah the same people
From the South,
From the North
From the West to the East,
nah the same people" (Tony Allen)
But what we have is the same old post-colonial mentality messing with the same old ethnic diversity.
I don't know what the great Northern politicians preach when they come down south, but I'm sure that up there some of them they talk about the kafirun, a bunch of alcoholics and pig farmers down south - and of course the more the country is polarised along the North-South axis ( the religious divide) the more the talk . I'm also sure that when the great Oga from the South goes up North he says " Brothers & Sisters, we are the Same people!"
Yesterday, Lord Anunoby wrote: "I understand that many people involve their feelings, emotions, and sympathies (mostly based on misinformation) in matters of politics and public affairs."
He did not write "my people" he wrote "many people"
He continued and I agree with him (fully): "My thinking however, is that it is much better that people's minds are shaped by facts and reason. The more this is the case, the less it is that the people would vote against their interests. Nigerians have voted against their interests too many times already."
Biko Agozino's The Poverty of Sycophancy illustrates the point and it's a reasonable demand to ask, "If I vote for you, what are you going to do for me?" (It's a question that the Muslims asked the Social Democrats a couple of elections ago, in Sweden. "What do you want?" they were asked. "We want a mosque! ", they replied, and they got their mosque, the former electricity powerhouse was transformed into the Stockholm Mosque
"Chime urged the president not to waste energy and resources campaigning in Enugu State, rather the president should channel the resources to other states where there is need for campaign:
"You can go to neighboring states but not Enugu, Enugu is hundred percent for Jonathan and PDP, we started this journey in 2011, we have been doing it and we will be ready to deliver PDP in the forthcoming 2015 Presidential election" he stated"
And here Biko Agozino the criminologist hits the nail on the head: Money, Money, Money:
"With the state as the second to last in Federal allocations, we should be making huge demands on any candidate for president"
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