There is 'still' a country.

After taking the trouble to read Achebe's memoir "there was a country" which, with the intention of reviewing realized that it wasn't worth the effort. This memoir I must say, although is an elaborate depiction of what transpired before and during the war, it however PRIMARILY presented a tribe misconception and beatified the Igbo tribe above the other tribes in Nigeria.

I really do not need to exhume the ghost of the Biafra war or exclaim the inhumanity therein but the racist impressions borne by Achebe killed my courage to review the book. Some may review this piece of mind of mine as a candid review but i hold it a trickle of aspersion for the book. 

I do understand the betrayal Achebe suffered as a young man who believed in enhancing the development of a young country, until he was faced with either annihilation in Lagos or return to the safety of his home region. I also understand the campaign for a sovereign Biafra that failed. It was a bitter pill that had to be swallowed for no cure that had to be forgotten. The book if you manage to read it, although showed Achebe as one the greatest writers Nigeria could ever have but i must say it also wanes my belief in him as one of the greatest minds in cultural and traditional sustenance. 

The true Pan-Africanism spirit is lost in the book. This is not the kind of book our peace-fragile nation needs at this time. It is a kind of book that spurs young bloods to war and revive the dust of Biafra. What we need at this point are books to unite us as a country and not further put asunder to a wandering nation. No wonder Achebe has turned down many of the National Awards proposed to him. He was living in the fragmented world of Biafra. His ideal cultural limbo which, never did survive champions the basis of this so called memoir. 

Nigeria as a nation has come to stay. Any attempt of secession would appropriately lead to another civil war. At this point of our lives, this is not what we want. If Achebe hopes to invoke the spirit of vengeance in the youths, as he massages his approach to the great beyond, then he must very well have a rethink.

The World at Full Speed

They say the world is going to an end. I don’t think so; I will rather say we humans are pushing the world to its end. Although the bible proclaims doom on the world in the book of revelation speaking about the end of time, I believe that the world is sooner approaching that end than that biblical appointed time.

I am not merely concerned about the chaos caused by our insatiable demand from nature. Neither am I ruffled about the unnecessary and insignificant wars and political imbroglio that have managed to keep the world in a state of fragile peace.

My concern exactly is the rape of morality in our society today. An institution that our forebears have suffered to build and sustain over the years; from the fall of the dark ages to the rise of the medieval era is today being riddled to the ground by so called right of freedom; that value today counts for nothing; the very foundation on which our society stands. A wise man once said that “The loss of Morality is the gain of crises”

Right of freedom and freewill are the very vice that are truly ruining the world. The former, a human given right and the latter God given talent are both taking their tolls on the values of human existence. It is right of freedom that gives some bedeviled humans to call for right of same sex marriage (legalization of gayism). Our world will soon lose the very civility that keeps it in harmony. Isn’t it true that what goes up must surely come down? Our civilization is beginning to reach its climax, its elastic limit, its diminishing return that is why our rage to reunite our time with the stoneage where chaos was the count of character seemed inevitable.

Sometimes I try to discover the unsavory legalization of same sex marriage. Just because some lost souls deemed the union of opposite sex extinct and found salvation in anal sex does not mean we should break the backbone of morality to uphold some evil right. To some I may sound personal in my position but I ask of what value is this law to human advancement and value. I think these are the substance that nourish our civilization.

I seek to wonder if these countries that fall victim to legalization of same sex marriage would also amend their constitutions to accommodate marriage between man and animal. For as far as I can tell both are similar cases. What these governments do not understand is that some humans are like children and still need that ‘parental’ guidance on how to spend their civil right. Unfortunately bad habit is far more contagious than good habit. No sooner had gay marriage been legalized, did many people rocked their world in its frivolous party. I am not going to blame the devil in this. We know what is right. In the innermost abyss of our hearts we know that it is grossly immoral and unrighteous. If not why do they labour to write it into constitutions.

I dare say that the role of America in this matter is symptomatic of their psychic for a free world. Nevertheless this does not guarantee lack of common sense in disposition of authority. I guess it is their ways to ‘lie the truth’ to themselves. I was an ardent supporter of America for their bill of right until recently. Some things are just not right.

It is a greater shame on the Christian society. We cannot even rely on our so called canons in the Christendom to abhor such demonic attitude. They had to be the first to rear it. No wonder Muslims will always refer to Christians as Kefirs (Unbelievers). For how can you be a believer, a priest for that matter and accept gay marriage. It is not compulsory to be a priest and remain celibate. It is merely a sacrifice of pleasure for pain to gain holiness.

This world is finished.