A few measuring side thoughts on Ogbuagu's profound digest on the matter.
Awoism and what could be called " Zikism" - even if denied, disavowed or disparaged by ethnic or political rivals, cannot be said to be devoid of content.
Satanism is also said to have have it's scriptures, its adherents, it's bishops, priests and organised sects, bank accounts...
A dream to come true as regions evolve – unevenly - welded together but not unevenly yoked as one/a nation: "a multicultural hub from where a united national energy can be constituted, galvanized and launched". I predict that such is the creative energy that Nigeria will soon dominate the global music industry with wave after wave of the new...
And God breathed into his nostrils and he became a living soul. The Bible doesn't say that God made dogs in his own image and likeness – that's why you even have songs like this one:
Man's humanity to man : Best words on the subject : "naming a dog after a president of the most populous Black country in the world is offensive and is distasteful culturally not because of the president because he is a mortal like all of us. But because of institution of the presidency" ( Abdul Salau)
Because of man's innate capacity for evil, I think that there ought to be a law : 100 lashes on the bare behind. That should teach him, her, them not to do it again. Masochists will of course repeat the offence. And ethical/ cultural relativism or not , why does the United States of America have to be the yardstick of tolerance in this affair? In the United States – the paragon of tolerance it is legal fare to call anybody anything - although the hypocrites pretend to be in shock when e.g. Trump said, "There was Blood coming from her wherever" or questions about Trump's ability to win the Black vote
Not difficult to believe:
1. A cat would be alright, but if any of my neighbours, no matter his/her ethnicity were to name his / her dog or chimpanzee Buhari and wanted to make him/herself a public nuisance by parading the animal in our neighbourhood, it would be a mistake that he/she would not hear further about the matter from me. (I see that one of the available routers in my vicinity is named " "I-like- nigger". My computer engineer from Antigua has urged me to investigate who is the owner of that router ,he winks at me and says that maybe it's a nice b-itch, in which case the decent thing for me to do would be to knock on her door and introduce myself, that I may strike it rich
"- Friction, caused-
Foolishly madam- by sitting down, has turned
My bottom raven black"
- perchance, perhaps she would like to see for herself?
2. That even anti-Brexit Nigerian Brits could feel offended to see on the BBC, an Englishman or anyone, parading his dog at Piccadilly Circus with the name of a Nigerian president being displayed on its collar.
3. That only in jest could Chinakwe be innocently explaining that it's only out of love and respect for President Buhari that he branded the president's name on both sides of his dog and that it was only not to cause offence and not to disturb the peace and quiet that he decided to parade his dog in the neighbourhood populated by Buhari's Northern kith and kin, a neighbourhood in which in fact lives one Alhaji Buhari.
Which is not to deny peoples right not to be provoked or Chinakwe's right to say anything in madness or in jest or in a state of utter sobriety. You can't do that sort of thing with the King of Japan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia. As to the limits of free speech, Hallaj was crucified for saying "Anal haqq !" - "I am The Truth" (God) in a state of spiritual intoxication. Pontius Pilate is reported to have asked Jesus of Nazareth: "What is truth?" and of course Jesus could have answered, " If you have seen me, you have seen him. He is standing here in person, right in front of you!"
" this Aluko-Nwakanma dispute only serves to deepen the tension" (Ogbuagu).
In which case it's a necessary and unavoidable deepening of "the tension" and we must thank them for the light not blood that's shed as a result of their exchanges. As Professor Harrow encourages, these questions "are very complicated, and your examples should really be regarded not as closing down the argument but opening it up"
El Toro (Chico Hamilton)
"This much we know: everything that was nailed down suddenly came loose. Chaos was king and the moral order looked like a furniture store after a hurricane. Everywhere the credentials of the authorities were challenged and great impostors were discovered in high circles ..."( Sam Keen, " to a dancing god")
| OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, | |
| Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; |
All that it should take to add to the grand mess is for Boko Haram to secure the borders to their proposed Islamic State and start their operations in the as yet un-Islamized Eastern Nigeria. As the man said, " Whatever our belief, let one faith bind us"
Re - "only serves to deepen the tension" (Ogbuagu)
The tensions that were once buried or only simmering underneath the surface, have now been unburied, resurrected. Their origins pre-date the birth of today's ideological combatants/proponents who, because the geography of territory has not changed, continue in their entrenched ancestral positions because they can't change history, not even through the deliberate misapprehensions being recycled and peddled as truth , that the war is over, when only phase one, the military one is officially over. There's now apart from the war against corruption, the economic war that is being waged – by which Nigeria's economy has been sabotaged, also has to be won.
To add to the confusion, the propaganda and justifications for either Igbo claims or exceptionalism or what was the dominance of the Yoruba in the education sector continues as a throwback from the days of woe, the days between the evil coup of 1966 in which Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa // Premier Sir Ahmadu Bello // Premier Samuel Akintola were mercilessly slaughtered and two weeks later, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
It's not as if the tensions between Dr Obi ( the aggressor – he started it all) and Dr. Aluko (the defendant – and explicator – by no means an apologist) are exacerbated by their exercising their "democratic right " to differ? Who can take that right away? n's facts-based thesis". What is so factual about his opinions? With the most recent updates we now know that beyond the patent symbolism in the name Buhari, a Buhari does indeed live in Chinakwe's neighbourhood - so how's that for good neighbourliness? Is it not disturbing the peace? Like a Palestinian radical - in the name of " Freedom of Speech" branding the name "Netanyahu" on both sides of his okuru dog and trotting the dog up to the Temple Mount (Well, I have referred to that Dylan song before : "If dogs run free, then why not we? "
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