Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Time to stop!

Oga Chidi, 

I couldn't stop laughing when I read your interjection.  No one has a monopoly of suffering, you know. And suffering comes in different shades and forms. And what's more, suffering is incomparable. Sleeping naked in the forest with bullets flying all around; wallowing in many weeks of hunger with a protruding belly as a counterfactual sign; being subjected to pedophilic exploitation; and so many more. Who are we to say one is greater than the other? Your suffering is yours; and mine is mine. Reason I will not dye my white hairs. They are my coming-of-age badge.  

Magana yakare!

Adeshina Afolayan


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On Thursday, June 6, 2019, 1:41 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

"I have suffered sufficiently to know that uncivility will get no one anywhere" (Adeshina).

Adeshina,

Talking of suffering, did you ever sleep inside a forest because of bombs and bullets as a child? Etc?

CAO.

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